Saving Evolution
Medicine

The wonder is that by bringing all that you are to what you do, you will undoubtedly create a unique meaning and purpose and vision to pursue, and find ways to do so. The emerging paradigm is already coalescing around principles that are human scale, biocentric, evolution-friendly, and circular (as in circular economies). They are […]

Until a century ago—very recent in light of the two-and-a-half-millennium history of Hippocratic medicine—most doctors worked in small communities in which they represented an important resource. That is, doctors would come with a wide social network, broad education, and ongoing contacts with outside centers of learning. At the time of the Lunar Men, the group […]

You might expect that the natural history that the Greeks developed over two millennia ago would first have been finished and then been rendered obsolete by industry and technology. Nothing could be farther from the truth. For some ailments, the natural history has been constructed as etiogenic (causal) models of early phenomena; this is particularly […]

I remember medical school classmates and other colleagues who went into medicine for reason of the suffering and death of others, perhaps a parent who was ill or died young, and who were true blue in their motivation to serve patients. I also saw people who were trapped by massive loans, fear of lawsuit, fear […]