Medical Doctor and Chiropractic Doctor
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease". Thomas Alva Edison
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The Old Paradigm |
The New Paradigm |
| Traces its roots back to the tribal medicine man | Hippocrates: Look well to the spine for the cause of disease. |
| Treats the disease within the patient | Cares for the patient with the disease |
| Perceives disease as a living organism (germs and bacteria) | Recognizes disease as multidimensional-a complex system of interactions |
| Looks outside the body for the cause of disease | Perceives disease caused from inside the body |
| Sees lack of disease as complete health | Looks at health as a state of the best possible physical, mental and spiritual well-being |
| Accentuates fighting disease | Accentuates maintenance of health and prevention of disease |
| Uses drugs and surgery to correct illness | Sees the body as self-healing; drugs and surgery destroy that process |
| The surgeon is the artist and surgery is his masterpiece | Sees a body that has failed to heal itself for some reason |
| Says illness is normal | Says health is normal |
| Systemic: the whole is a sum of its parts | Holistic: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts |
| Believes in the healing power of medicine | Believes that the power that made the body is the only power that is able to heal the body |