Thank You.
A few days ago I posted a scathing rant about my disappointment in the medical system. I was vindicated by the many similar stories people shared with me in person and via social media. I got referrals for Naturopath clinicians and got some advice. Ultimately, everyone seems as lost in the system as I do.
One lone dissenter got me thinking that I needed to follow up.
I don’t regret what I wrote. I had even more to say and still do.
But I want to make it clear that I KNOW there are wonderful amazing compassionate people in the medical field that logged all the hours and spent all the money to get through school and training and that care deeply about their patients. They probably have their own set of complaints about the system.
My gyno is freaking awesome. Jennifer O’Connor owned the Women’s Clinic of Vancouver. She is no nonsense, asks me what I’m reading, gives me book suggestions, is honest when she doesn’t know something and I appreciate that she is working on learning more in her field. When my boobies were doing something weird, she told me to take Evening Primrose (it worked). She had the trauma of me passing out on her table and she still welcomes me back (Now she’s at PeaceHealth).
My dad’s radiation doctor LECTURED him about the importance of nutrition and said that was the single most important part of his cancer treatment. He was head and shoulders above the other oncologists (not literally, he was actually quite short). My dad’s Kaiser-appointed nutritionist seemed clueless about the harmful ingredients in the liquid nutrition he was prescribed, but she went to bat for him and got his insurance company to approve the organic plant-based option when we talked to her.
My husband has a new doctor that is all about using advances in medicine, but believes the first place to start healing is lifestyle changes.
And then there’s up and coming medical professionals like my daughter’s boyfriend. Brandon is a medical assistant at the Pullman Regional Hospital’s Interventional Pain Management Clinic on his way to medical school. He is bright eyed and unscarred by the medical system for now. I hope it stays that way. He is an amazing ambitious talented young man that has it in him to change the world, one patient at a time. We have our disagreements on some natural medicine theories, but he’s willing to listen. He sees hope in the future of medicine and the system we are all a part of. And that gives me hope.
Between the good ones already working in the system, the newbies, the up-and-comers and the revolution RFK Jr is sure to throw in the mix… we just may get the medical system we all want.
To all the nurses, doctors, staff and admin that deal with rude people, the nastiness of human bodies that I would never have the stomach to deal with, the strongholds of the Man that limit you, and still somehow love on your patients. THANK YOU.
