Greetings All,
I’m back in the saddle again typing away. Sorry for not posting in such a long time. Have been out of state and other complications. Anyway, what does it mean when a doctor, physician or health care specialist declares you “HEALTHY”?
The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) published and article entitled “Stroke in a Healthy 46 year old man. Was he really “healthy” the day before his stroke occurred? I don’t believe so and if that is the case, why was he and countless others considered “healthy” according to the medical community.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not implying incompetence on the part of the medical community, but I am trying to understand the word “Healthy” according to their definition. When a traditional MD declares you “Healthy”, what they are really saying is that you have no abnormalities or show any symptoms that their “Training” can detect. Most of the time, medical diagnosis has serious limitations because the MD’s, physicians, health care professionals really don’t have the time or take the time to actually listen to their patients. Sir William Osler, MD spoke of his profession in the following terms; “Half of us are blind, few of us feel and we are ALL deaf!”
We have all gone to the doctor’s office with fear in our hearts of what they will find or tell us. What will they find? Cancer? A blocked artery? Degenerating disks? Organ disease? Does it have to be this way? NO!!!!
So, back to the question, “What does it mean to be HEALTHY?” Well, according to Webster’s definition of Healthy, it means; “Health is the overall sound condition or function of a living organism at a particular time.”
With the mind, body, spirit approach, health psychology focuses on the overall health of each individual. As “Health Professionals” we must look at the entire picture of health and how it relates to the whole body and STOP LOOKING FOR MAGICAL CURES AND WISHFUL THINKING!
QUOTE: “Good health care is not an end in itself; it’s the means to a healthy life.”
The Massage Professor
