Comments on: think outside the box http://www.lionandmagicboy.com/2006/10/11/think-outside-the-box/ now with bigger words Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:13:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Murphy http://www.lionandmagicboy.com/2006/10/11/think-outside-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Murphy Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:39:02 +0000 http://www.lionandmagicboy.com/?p=83#comment-50 It is the nature of modern man and science to put things in boxes, to level its "scientific" eye and view things in within a limited purview. Were it that the thing especially a human being, was valued for what it was instead. Van Gogh's mourn was "Why can't they love me for who I am?" Anatomy and Physiology is dismembered into disparate parts, and then at the end, the student is asked to see the human as a whole. I have been involved in surgical procedures, once inside the human body, there are no dotted lines telling one this separates the liver from the gall bladder. But science does with its textbooks, its narrowly written and cataloged columns and its floating in the air illustrations. Our well-meaning doctors and therapists, driven by our greedy insruance companies into narrower and narrower views don't deliver true health care, they deliver "managed" care. Tis a far cry from what it once might have been, and with all of our technology and personpower,...could be. It is the nature of modern man and science to put things in boxes, to level its “scientific” eye and view things in within a limited purview. Were it that the thing especially a human being, was valued for what it was instead. Van Gogh’s mourn was “Why can’t they love me for who I am?”

Anatomy and Physiology is dismembered into disparate parts, and then at the end, the student is asked to see the human as a whole. I have been involved in surgical procedures, once inside the human body, there are no dotted lines telling one this separates the liver from the gall bladder. But science does with its textbooks, its narrowly written and cataloged columns and its floating in the air illustrations.

Our well-meaning doctors and therapists, driven by our greedy insruance companies into narrower and narrower views don’t deliver true health care, they deliver “managed” care. Tis a far cry from what it once might have been, and with all of our technology and personpower,…could be.

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