Daniel Parecki

Western medicine fails to deliver health care that addresses overall human health. It views health as the absence of disease which is far from accurate. Say you go to the doctor because you feel lethargic and generally sick even though you have no acute symptoms, since the doctor cannot pin any diagnosis, she will send you home empty handed.  You have no categorized disease so the doctor cannot do anything for you.  The doctor’s job is to fight disease no improve health.

A second point is that western medicine tries to understand the way the body works through studying every micro process conceivable.  There is a fatal flaw in this method of understanding.  Human health is too complex to understand solely through micro processes.  There exists a hierarchy of science in which higher sciences build upon lower ones.  Chemistry is built on principles from physics, and biology is built on principles of chemistry.  Understanding chemistry is important to begin to fully understand biology, but biology is too complex to understand only in chemical terms.  Looking at the way electrons are transferred between molecules (chemistry) is too small of a view to understand the way ribosomes translate RNA (biology).  Biology rests on chemistry, but it takes a larger picture to understand biological processes.  Western medicine views the body like a machine and it tries to make the machine run smoothly by repairing each gear and spoke within the machine.  Doctors prescribe chemicals as medicine that alter very small steps in very small biochemical pathways which end up having a large effect.  Their understanding of health is limited to operations of very small processes in the body.  Their approach to health is similar to saying ‘i understand biology because I know that a carbon atom can attach to four other carbon atoms.  Doctor’s perspective of health is micro oriented so the larger picture of human health is lost.

For these reasons I propose the creation of a new field of study that is one step higher that biology and psychology.  This study will be called the study of human health and it will offer a broad view of health that rests upon the foundations of psychology and biology.  It accepts and builds upon everything western medicine has proven but it combines all these things and raises the perspective of researchers and doctors so that they ask the question “What can we do to help the human body function in its strongest way?”