Items of Interest May 30, 2011 Issue

Moving beyond stereotypes

Bob Clark

“Breaking free of the traditional health model” http://flcompub.org. April 13, 2011.

I love it when stereotypes dissolve and reveal a new, more accurate view. Christian Scientists are sometimes stereotyped as being prohibited by their church from any interaction with the medical profession. Not true, but still a widely held perception.

Some people stereotype medical professionals as part of a medical-pharmaceutical monolith, allied with insurance giants to provide only an impersonal, assembly line approach to managing health dilemmas. I was pleased recently to find convincing evidence that this too may be an unfair stereotype.

A previous guest-blog posted here, “Signs of changing times . . . a health-care transformation,” drew an interesting and thoughtful response from a local health-care professional, Dr. Stacey Robinson, who responded, “The longer I practice medicine, the more I appreciate the extraordinary power of the mind and spirit on physical health.” A quick look at her website revealed that this professional’s practice of family medicine is part of what she describes as “a growing number of physicians who are breaking free of the traditional health model,” an alternative to “insurance-based health care” and part of a “revolution in primary care medicine.”

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