Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!wws From: wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Purging Stoll and his kind Message-ID: <2221@ukma.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 19:41:10 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.2221 Posted: Thu Sep 19 19:41:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 00:51:21 EDT References: <2172@ukma.UUCP> <813@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> <272@bbncc5.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 65 Keywords: (or giving net.med a high colonic) Summary: 4 stages of societal response to great advances in thinking. Has Steve Dyer blown a fuse? 3 (9/19/85) med. articles support Holistic Medicine. Poor Steve. Sooo predictable! There are four stages of societal response to the discovery of radically new concepts (in this order): #1 Ignore it and it will go away. #2 Ridicule #3 Attack #4 Total acceptance: "Well, that's obvious! We knew that all the time! Twice now, Steve has ridiculed something I have placed on the net; only to have strong evidence to the contrary be published within a few days of his unsupported position. His response has been to regress (like the child who reverts to bedwetting when the new baby is brought home from the hospital) from the relatively advanced societal response of ridicule to the relatively more primitive strategy of ignoring. Sorry Steve, you're going to have to work harder and harder to ignore what is rushing, like an avalanche, into all our lives. Just today, in one of the many Medical Journals I read every day, in the special section called Medical Ethics (appropriate, I think), Thomas Preston, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine & Chief of Cardiology at Pacific Medical Center, joined my side. In a one page statement,"Palliative Care No Match for Prevention of Disease", one more outstanding clinician points out exactly my position: Reference--Medical World News/September 9, 1985 (page 19). The same day two more articles in the same vein: Family Practice News/ September 1-14, 1985, page 16, "Medicare Asked to Take Part in Promoting 'Wellness'" & page 18 (same issue) "Promoting Healthier Life-Styles Challenging, Rewarding". Even the AMA has already reached the last of the four societel responses. In American Medical News/September 13, 1985, the announcement is made that the third special supplement to Newsweek by the AMA appears in the Sept. 9th edition, titled: "To your health! Building and keeping a healthy body." The supplement covers such topics as nutrition, exercise, and disease prevention. The only professional national medical organization that specializes in this field is the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA). For the past 7 years, since the beginning of the AHMA, the AMA has done as much as it legally could to stifle it. The very things the AMA is now claiming for its own has been practiced for many years by Holistic Medical Practitioners. Of course, the AHMA is now practicing an advanced form of what was known 7 years ago. It will be years before the conventional medical practitioner catches up though catch up they will eventually. It should already be considered malpractice to offer less than is known. Eventually that may be what forces many MDs to go back to learn all this new stuff. Trying to pitch the offerings to the net to satisfy the lowest common denominator would be a sad thing for the rest of us. Maybe we can create a "special class for slow learners like the Steve Dyers". -- cbosgd!ukma!wws(Walt Stoll) YOU Walt Stoll, MD, ABFP Founder & Medical Director ARE MORE Holistic Medical Centre 1412 North Broadway Lexington, Kentucky 40505 THAN YOU THINK (606) 233-4273 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com