21st Century Transitions (Part I)

Interesting Times

From 18^th Century Medicine to 21st Century Healing

Transitioning from a world built out of 19^th and 20^th century technology into that of the 21^st century continues to make for interesting times. These transitions are having an extraordinary impact within the realm of medicine and healing. Medical education was and for the most part continued to be focused on producing Physicians training for the battle field where they may stop the pain, halt the infection and remove the bullet. Educating the modern 21^st century Healing Physician is more focused on creating an environment of healing from which a state of wellness may be grown.   

Historically, the Medical Physician was, as they are today the coroner who handled the physical remains of a transitions soul where it was utilized for study. Focus was on the diagnosis, study and cure of disease. The Healing Physician was a part of the Priesthood and served as a conduit for the physical manifestation of the power of the almighty forces of the universe. Focus was most centered on the need to remain aligned with the universal forces. The primary mission of the Priesthood was focus on Academics, Justice, Healing and our Spiritual Walk. Illness was a most pressing and mysterious challenge most vigorously studied by the Medial Physician and closely associated with the forces of the universe by the Healing Physician. It was believed that the more spiritual our walk the less we would experience illness. As illness and plaques virtually wipe out entire communities, we began to transition from the healing powers of the unseen towards that which had more physical evidence.  

Increasing challenges to our health would lead to further extracting from society, a special group specifically mandated to address our maladies and identified as the “medical expert”. This member of the priesthood was to heal sickness as well as remove whatever spell, enchantment or incantation considered to be at work. It was believed that the Healing Physician (Prophet), was a direct conduit and received powers from the universal forces. The Healing Physician was called on to provide the miracle that came from one’s faith in the unseen. 

Increasing wars and battles resulted in increasing battlefield wounds. The wounds sustained on the battlefield required a type of immediate attention and definitive actions that were less dependent on faith. As the church began to fall from the center of our reality, humanity began to ordain a new means of explaining and justifying our existence. This became the ways of materialistic science that relied more on physical evidence.

Historically the physician and surgeon were separate and distinct. In fact, they really did not like one another. The physician looked down on the surgeon as one with limited education who was good with a razor and most suited for keeping the officers well shaved on the battle field when they were not removing wounded limbs from those injured in battle. However, as we continued to wage war with weapons of greater destruction, the need for immediate medical and surgical attention (the Medical Physician) exceeded that of the Healing Physician. The union of the Medical Physician and Surgeon was forged out of the need for a trained individual who could be called on to heal illness as well as patch the wound. This merger of necessity led to today’s medically trained Physician & Surgeon.