The Art of Medicine in the Information Age - Synergizing Medical Science with Spiritual Intelligence

Complementary and alternative medicine has never been more popular; hence reality checks in health care are required more than ever. Especially evidence-based medicine has become a useful tool in the wild jungle of cyberspace, giving us the means to assess the credibility of new age healers, omniscient gurus and other 'medical experts'. The best 'reality check' regarding CAM therapies might well be the family practice physician; but for that physicians must be able to synergise medical science and spiritual intelligence effectively. Because even though evidence-based medicine goes a long way in health care, it does not go all the way. Medicine, derived from Latin, meaning the art of healing, is as much about spiritual intelligence as it is about pathology. Therefore imagination, intuition, empathy and passion are also required; but these abilities cannot be achieved by the power of word alone; hence it is important to hone and train these essential prerequisites, which this book will assist you to do.