Is Your Health Optimal
Is Your Focus on Disease, or Wellness?
Both Western and Chinese medicine could be accused of focusing too much on disease treatment, rather than wellness. Practitioners from both medicines are taught to be problem-solvers and disease-curers instead of wellness promoters.
You can't blame Western medical docs - most of their preventive advice is to avoid negative things. They don't really have a deep and powerful system of prevention. No wonder they don't see prevention as paramount.
We can't blame patients for not striving for optimal health. Most of the time, humans just do their daily thing until something keeps them from sleeping, working, or enjoying life.
We only think of medicine when we need a cure...
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