{"id":873,"date":"2015-06-30T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whitewillowhealing.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2023-02-07T14:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:33:18","slug":"tolerance-in-the-medical-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicinewithheart.com\/tolerance-in-the-medical-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Tolerance in the Medical Field?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Cultural Tolerance<\/h5>

As a society, America has come a long way in terms of accepting differences and allowing people to express their opinions.\u00a0 We have abolished slavery.\u00a0 Women have the right to vote.\u00a0 We have made great progress toward race and gender equality.\u00a0 While we still have a ways to go here, in most places, it is considered inappropriate to put someone down or treat someone poorly just because of race or gender.\u00a0 Our culture values treating Americans as brothers and sisters regardless of race, gender, or religion.\u00a0 We have become tolerant of a variety of religious and spiritual beliefs.\u00a0 There is a growing movement towards tolerance of sexual orientation and relationship choices.\u00a0 Gay rights is still a controversial topic for some, but many states now allow same sex marriage and couples are becoming more comfortable to display affection in public.\u00a0 Our culture has been moving and making great strides towards tolerance of differences. However, the medical field is lagging behind in this arena.<\/p>

Is There Tolerance In the Medical Field? <\/strong><\/h5>

I would go so far as to say that on average the field is still very intolerant of differences.\u00a0 There is a large percentage of doctors and laypeople who are so invested in the conventional paradigm, that they make it a point to ostracize, alienate, and put down anyone who deviates from their point of view.\u00a0 Some in this group go so far as to say that all complimentary and alternative medicine as \u201cpseudoscience\u201d and dangerous.\u00a0 Many people in this community will publically criticize practitioners who use non-conventional treatments.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Potential for Harm in the Medical Field<\/h5>

This becomes a complex issue because in healthcare, there is the potential for harm.\u00a0 Of course there needs to be some degree of legal protection from con artists and people who are hurting others.\u00a0 There are extreme natural healers who will convince people to come off of needed medications, but this isn\u2019t very common.\u00a0 There are also con artists who are looking for any way to take advantage of others and make money through trickery.\u00a0 These sorts of people are present in many fields, though, and are often weeded out and eventually face jail time.<\/p>

Even conventional medicine isn\u2019t free from potential for harm.\u00a0 A review of research and statistical data about harm associated with hospital care found that premature deaths associated with preventable harm totaled 400,000 people per year (1)<\/a>.\u00a0 That would put harm from conventional medical treatment at the third leading cause of death based on the Center for Disease Control (CDC) statistics for death rates in 2013, exceeded only by heart disease and cancer.\u00a0 That being said, conventional medicine is also responsible for saving many hundreds of thousands of lives each year.<\/p>

There are also people on the complimentary and alternative (CAM) side of medicine that ostracize conventional doctors.\u00a0 Many in the CAM community criticize the disease management emphasis without finding a root problem in conventional medicine.\u00a0 There are some in the CAM community that tell others to steer clear of conventional care because pharmaceuticals and vaccines are toxic or dangerous.\u00a0 Many conventional doctors call CAM practitioners charlatans and con artists (even the honest CAM clinicians).\u00a0 Their justification is that CAM modalities aren\u2019t proven science and are misleading, harming people, and costing them money unnecessarily.<\/p>

Many conventional doctors and CAM clinicians are polarized toward their style of care and don\u2019t express tolerance for different viewpoints.\u00a0 Where is the tolerance in the field of medicine?\u00a0 It seems like it is culturally acceptable in the medical field to criticize and alienate different approaches.\u00a0 As an integrative practitioner who believes in tolerance, I long for a kind and professional respect for colleagues in the medical field as a whole.\u00a0 Can we dismantle the division between conventional care and CAM?\u00a0 Is it possible for us to allow a variety of styles of medical care and let people freely choose who they want to see?\u00a0 I believe there is room for a wide variety of medical offerings and professional services.<\/p>

\u00a0References:<\/span><\/p>

1. James, John T. “A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care.” Journal of Patient Safety<\/em> 9.3 (2013): 122-28. Web.<\/span><\/a><\/p>

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