Dr B M Hegde: What medicine ought to be
What medicine ought to be
- Dr B M Hegde
- Dr B M Hegde
Science has advanced by leaps and
bounds. With the latest science the following conclusions could be drawn which
seems to be true today.
• Human body is not a machine put
together by joining organs together. Human body is a bundle of energy and a
colony of 129 trillion human cells, each one of which can live like a human
being in isolation. We also are home to ten times that number of germ cells at
a ratio of 1:10.
• The human body works as whole
and not in bits and pieces.
• Healing has to be Whole Person
Healing. (WPH) This is now scientifically accepted by the IOM in USA, thanks to
Late Professor Rustum Roy’s efforts. Organs cannot be treated in isolation.
• In a dynamic system, future
prediction is impossible, unless we know the total initial state of the
organism, which is impossible. Weather predictions never come right, butterfly
effect is the rule. Writing in the British Medical Journal, Professor WJ Firth,
a physicist, shows how foolish it is for doctors to predict the unpredictable
future of their patients. (BMJ 1991; 303: 1565)
• Evolution is not
Darwinian-Mendelian but is Lamarckian. The genes play a secondary fiddle, as
there are only 23,000 human genes in our genome, with two and half trillion
germ genes. Epigenetics is the order of the day.
Scientists and rationalists
condemn our poor astrologers for predicting human future. The same people do
not condemn this kind of quackery? Why this double standards? In fact the
latter is more dangerous as it is done in the name of that hallowed
word-“Science”.
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