Question

adjustment and self-acceptance is not what is needed,” but that we should each take responsibility for our lives and break away from the wétiko mindset. “To adjust to a wétiko society is to become insane. To accept one’s self is bad if it means accepting a personal behavior which is ugly, exploitative, or which represents a surrender of the need for freedom, change, or growth.” How might this passage relate to the field of integrative health care? How do you think an individual with a holistic mindset should interact with the medical institutions? What might the power structure of a healthy integration between holistic and mainstream medicine be like?

Answer 1

Accepting wetiko society means projecting one's behaviour onto society which is not acceptable.

This is true in integrative healthcare where opinion of some cohorts is not what makes decision or judgement . Its more integrated and each function like doctor, patient, and management strives together to bring effective health care management .

Individual must have holistic mindset of functioning of healthcare seevices and must appreciate the way they treat patients and diseases through various methods because there is no one size that fits all. It is more collaborative approach of treatment which works best.

Even recently mainstream medicine has been bygone because doctors too go for holistic treatments using best of both worlds using ayurvedic or natural treatments and then combining it with allopathy. This kind of market structure will be great bylarge for consumers and entire health care industry with sharing of resources and eceonomies of scale and using comparative advantage .