Incomparable Genius -- Treating an Irreplaceable Being

Our previous topic, Genius Out of the Box -- Creating the Empowered Patient, has provided us with some remarkable perspectives. Now we're ready to take a significant step forward.

As a precursor to this topic, I'd like to reflect on three different conferences I've attended over the last several months all of which were focused on creating a new paradigm in medicine. It's been very encouraging to hear the genuniely heart felt desire of physicians, medical directors, nurses, and administrators to reshape the healthcare model and to dramatically improve how healthcare is delivered. All of the approaches I've heard have focused on providing patient-centered care in a healing, inspiring environment (and have included much of what Michelle and WC spoke of in our previous topic).

Now, in this discussion, as we get down to some of the bare fundamentals, I think our biggest opportunity will be to think beyond our current restrictions. I'm aware that because we have all grown up with these restrictions, we are in some ways like the horse who stays in his corral because a single wire at knee height once shocked him when he touched it. Those boundary conditions are then etched in his mind as real and permanent.

I believe that one of the prime boundary conditions that we have become hard-wired to accept is the notion that healthcare is expensive, that providers, insurance companies, etc. are going to generate excessive profits and that we must simply accept this. I would like to propose, for the sake of this discussion, at least, that we assume for the time being that money is not an issue (we'll pretend that some new source of revenue has been uncovered that will cover all costs or whatever mechanism enables you to set aside the financial discussion for now).

What I'd like to see us do therefore, is focus on how we would go about interacting with a human being, who has come to us in a wellness center, who we recognize as a totally unique expression of the force that animates the universe. And let's also presume that we realize that this being and the very life force within them is of incalculable value. How would we go about treating such a being?

I look forward to your thoughts, questions, and ponderings.

P.S. We also have an active topic in motion entitled, Global Genius -- Creative Solutions for a Crazy World. Feel free to join us for that discussion as well.

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