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I don't know very much about traditional chinese medicine: like western medicine it's probably that they have certain things very wrong. However, I will say th
by DaniFong 17y ago
I don't know very much about traditional chinese medicine: like western medicine it's probably that they have certain things very wrong.
However, I will say that the analytical side of western medicine is over reliant on tools which render it practically blind to relationships more complicated than linear sensitivity to single variables, whereas the clinic side is driven by the cultural mores and background of doctors who, alarmingly, are not much healthier than the rest of the population.
And then there's the issue of arrogance. My god some doctors are arrogant.
Numerous alternative medicines return the focus to the whole body, whole life, and nutrition, and return the ultimate responsibility for the care of the patient to the patient.
In this, I think that they represent quite a promising volume in healthcare parameter-space.
- dmoney 17y agoMaybe the problem is that "relationships more complicated than linear sensitivity to single variables" are hard to study scientifically, and Western medicine is supposed to be founded on science.
- DaniFong 17y agoThat's true in a practical sense today for most scientists, but it need not always be so. Multivariate linear regression is currently the swiss army knife of the statistical sciences. Even now there isn't much appreciation of its merits, flaws, applicability and power. But now that we have computers powerful enough to interactively process and visualize data, it seems to me to be possible to bring an understanding of non-linear statistical modeling.