#Acupuncture is being integrated into mainstream #medicine, in #hospitals and #clinics, but at a dawdling slow pace. This article highlighs some of the inspiring headways that are being made into getting this exceptional medicine into #modern #healthcare. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eujim.2024.102371 Sandro Graca, Matthias Huemer, Beverley de Valois, Bobbee Vang, Lara McClure

The special issue of Chinese Medicine and Culture, volume 7, discusses the global cross-cultural integration of TCM in the mainstream healthcare, medical education and the practice of medicine. It describes how TCM was established in the west, how schools were formed, how regulation was put together, and what is the future of the profession. With interviews of some of the key pioneers in the field, Ted Kaptchuk, Peter Deadman, Will Morris, Nigel Wiseman, Peter Eckman, John McDonald , Judy James, Felicity Moir, Edward Neal, and Mel Hopper Koppelman. You can access the journal through this link: https://journals.lww.com/CMC/pages/default.aspx Ioannis Solos was kind enough to also uploaded the pdf of the entire issue on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fT4BSSEJ5uH8wqeWbry38NoLz2lo4nFJ/view #tcm #china #healthcare

The special issue of Chinese Medicine and Culture, volume 7, discusses the global cross-cultural integration of TCM in the mainstream healthcare, medical education and the practice of medicine. It describes how TCM was established in the west, how schools were formed, how regulation was put together, and what is the future of the profession. With interviews of some of the key pioneers in the field, Ted Kaptchuk, Peter Deadman, Will Morris, Nigel Wiseman, Peter Eckman, John McDonald , Judy James, Felicity Moir, Edward Neal, and Mel Hopper Koppelman. You can access the journal through this link: https://journals.lww.com/CMC/pages/default.aspx Ioannis Solos was kind enough to also uploaded the pdf of the entire issue on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fT4BSSEJ5uH8wqeWbry38NoLz2lo4nFJ/view #tcm #china #healthcare

I have thought quite a bit about what should become of this institute that we call "healthcare". Is it a monumental grand project, one of mankind's greatest achievements, like the pyramids? In countries where modern healthcare is not available, there is much suffering that may have been prevented. On the other hand, modern medicine is one of the top causes of death in developed countries, and that doesn't seem to get much better, and it is enormously expensive too, among the biggest items on a nation's budget, increasing very rapidly, again with no end in sight. There is no natural limit to what could be spend on healthcare: no matter how much is spend, still people will die, still some people will not receive the help we would want them to get. And sadly, no developed country has yet really succeeded in integrating the best forms of medicine, which I consider acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine to be, into the national healthcare system, even though some tantalising efforts have been made. Who decides what should be the scope? What should be included and what not? What can it cost, and who shall pay? Is, in the end, the public healthcare system a right, or a privilege? Thomas Buckley offers a different paradigm through which to view healthcare: healthcare as an evolutionary advantage. I found his essay very interesting. https://brownstone.org/articles/health-care-right-privilege-or-neither/

I have thought quite a bit about what should become of this institute that we call "healthcare". Is it a monumental grand project, one of mankind's greatest achievements, like the pyramids? In countries where modern healthcare is not available, there is much suffering that may have been prevented. On the other hand, modern medicine is one of the top causes of death in developed countries, and that doesn't seem to get much better, and it is enormously expensive too, among the biggest items on a nation's budget, increasing very rapidly, again with no end in sight. There is no natural limit to what could be spend on healthcare: no matter how much is spend, still people will die, still some people will not receive the help we would want them to get. And sadly, no developed country has yet really succeeded in integrating the best forms of medicine, which I consider acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine to be, into the national healthcare system, even though some tantalising efforts have been made. Who decides what should be the scope? What should be included and what not? What can it cost, and who shall pay? Is, in the end, the public healthcare system a right, or a privilege? Thomas Buckley offers a different paradigm through which to view healthcare: healthcare as an evolutionary advantage. I found his essay very interesting. https://brownstone.org/articles/health-care-right-privilege-or-neither/

Healthcare is going the wrong way: modern industrial medicine has become seriously bent by commercial interests, and it is harmful for this to go unrecognised. (Credits to Charlie Buck)

Healthcare is going the wrong way: modern industrial medicine has become seriously bent by commercial interests, and it is harmful for this to go unrecognised. (Credits to Charlie Buck)

I am feeling very ambiguous about Amazon Clinic. On one hand, the healthcare marketplace could really benefit from a disruptive player. On the other, the concentration of power, data collection, data mining and other consequences of extremely large players is worrisome, more so when regarding our health than consumer goods. It probably was inevitable, because of the way that Modern Industrial Medicine has evolved, in the direction of more and more protocolisation and what has become of the once high hopes of Evidence Based Medicine. And maybe it is what we need, in an age of labour shortages, an rapidly ageing population and an imminent population collapse. How will small providers of Traditional Chinese Medicine navigate this development? There may be just as many opportunities as challenges for them. https://clinic.amazon.com/

I am feeling very ambiguous about Amazon Clinic. On one hand, the healthcare marketplace could really benefit from a disruptive player. On the other, the concentration of power, data collection, data mining and other consequences of extremely large players is worrisome, more so when regarding our health than consumer goods. It probably was inevitable, because of the way that Modern Industrial Medicine has evolved, in the direction of more and more protocolisation and what has become of the once high hopes of Evidence Based Medicine. And maybe it is what we need, in an age of labour shortages, an rapidly ageing population and an imminent population collapse. How will small providers of Traditional Chinese Medicine navigate this development? There may be just as many opportunities as challenges for them. https://clinic.amazon.com/

Full access to traditional, complementary and integrative #healthcare should be part of the right to #health . The healthcare we want focuses on the whole person, is #participative , respects individual #choices as well as cultural #diversity and integrates clinical #experience and #patient #values with the best available research information. The People’s Declaration calls for the respectful collaboration between traditional, complementary and biomedical practices with the aim of achieving a person-centred and #holistic approach to health. Consider signing the #petition : https://tcih.org/