AlterNet ran a a rather freightening story today about contemporary US hospitals today.

Here is my analysis as to why we have sunk so low and a few ideas to turn things around.

What AlterNet describes is the result what the excesses of reductionistic biomedicine have wrought. While looking intensely into the microscopes we have failed to use the "macroscope".

THE DANGER OF CONTEMPORARY US HOSPITALS AND THE ILL HEALTH OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS RANKS UP THERE AS PERHAPS THE TWO MOST BLATANT MODERN US CULTURAL PARADOXES

The possible solutions if we move smart and fast are-

-immediately ceasing the business model of US hospitals. Medicine is a profession. Not a business-PERIOD!

-embracing and implementing a HOLISTIC MODEL(Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual model) of health care.

PS- The patients are WAY ahead of the professionals and managers! That will help!

Dr. Rick Lippin

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Southampton, Pa