Put aside healthcare reform. Put aside all the insurance hassles one faces. Put aside the debates on healthcare reform.
The national conversation is pretty weak on the kind of healthcare people receive. For years, I have cobbled together resources to attempt to get roughly the kind of healthcare I wanted. What I wanted was truly integrated healthcare — Eastern and Western medicines and treatments considered while looking at me as a whole person including my spirit or soul.
The healthcare I want is from truly integrated practitioners who know Eastern and Western medicine, treatments and therapies. Practitioners who will take the time to know me and to allow me to control the type of care I receive. Healers who are wise and can focus on what is essential to give me a sense of hope and control over my health and life.
The healthcare I want is from people who have healed themselves as human beings, and who truly want to see me healed by looking at the causes of my health challenges. No more diagnosis = a test(s) and a pill(s).
The healthcare I want feels safe to me. Safe in many dimensions: I feel protected and secure in it. It does no harm. It does not violate my beliefs and philosophy about life. I trust it.
The healthcare I want is given with me in mind, not a diagnosis or disease in mind, so that I feel aligned with and agree with the treatment. And I understand the treatment / therapy and why it is being given to me. If I have questions after the treatment starts, there is someone available to answer them. That someone is someone I trust.
That is the healthcare I want. What about you? Is this the healthcare you want?