This has come up a few times over the past few months and big time today so I thought I'd put it to the group.

 

Let's say you have a geriatric patient.  And let's say this person is having GI issues you attribute to achlorhydria as a normal process in aging.  Do you treat this? or do you choose to honor the body's innate wisdom in this case and not treat it?  Do you choose to treat the deficiencies in growth, testosterone, estrogen, thyroid hormones after determining that these too are reduced as a result of aging?  Or do you choose to honor the body's innate wisdom?  If you would treat one and not the other, why?

 

What I'm getting at is that I hear doctor's all the time referring to things that they won't treat as being an honoring of the body'e innate wisdom and so I am wondering where do you draw the line and more importantly, why?  What determines when the innate wisdom needs honoring and when it needs treatment?  And, what makes the two exclusive?  In other words, why is treating something seen as not honoring the body's wisdom?

 

Thanks y'all,

William Franklin
SCNM Student

"How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only – Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person’s actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source." --Marcus Aurelius

---

Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast
with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut.