Reinventing Primary Healthcare
Posted on | October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
Gregg Hake | CEO, Energetix
The company I am building with friends and family – Energetix – is a vehicle of change. We create nutritional, homeopathic and botanical remedies and educational programs and the promotion of wellness is our goal. We recently concluded the 12th Annual Energetix Lyceum which was entitled “Reinventing Primary Health Care.” Medical practitioners of all stripes attended – MDs, Chiropractors, Chinese Medical Doctors, Acupuncturists, Naturopaths, Nutritionists, Colon Hydrotherapists, just to name a few – to share a vision of what primary medicine should look like over the next 100 years.
It was universally agreed that the current primary care model no longer suits the needs of today’s public. Over the last century, we have relied very heavily on technological advances to improve our health care. The net result of that focus, coupled with the drive towards specialization and drug-centric interventions is an expensive, cumbersome and ineffectual system desperately in need of redesign. To be sure, the medical approach as we know it today has its merits and place and we would be foolish to throw the baby out with the bathwater in the process of its reform. That said, an integrative approach – one that reincorporates elements of prevention and care – is the prudent course. So where do we begin?
The most impressive observation of our Lyceum gathering from my standpoint was that there was absolutely no complaint about or disdain for the present system, rather, how things are was used as the starting point for envisioning how things ought to be. The speakers shared an incredible wealth of experience garnered from years of innovative thinking and investment. Synergies between modalities were discussed, reintegrating elements of care that have constrained toward isolation within the current approach (Eastern/Western, Homeopathy/Allopathy, Bio-chemical/Energetic, etc. The use of social media, a phenomenon that is transforming how business is done in the United States in particular, and the keys to integrating a natural pharmacy into any medical practice were also reviewed. Finally, the speakers brought to light effective alternative approaches to challenging issues such as autism, metabolic disorders and chronic disease…all while reinserting the “care” in the healthcare equation.
As a society, we have strayed too far from attention to the fundamentals of health care. Proper diet, exercise, and rest are far too scarce in our land of plenty. And our people are suffering because of it. Rather than scrambling to mask symptoms through drug interventions, rushing to cut out offending tissues and organs, we must make an effort to get back to the basics. Is an ounce of prevention really that hard to swallow?
I don’t believe so and neither do the gathering network of practitioners and patients of Energetix who feel there is a way out of this health care conundrum or at least a way to lower the ballooning costs of our system by reducing our dependency on it in the first place. If you’d like to learn more about Energetix or to find an Energetix practitioner in your area, visit www.goenergetix.com.
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October 30th, 2009 @ 11:05 am
Hey!
Just wanted to let you know….I have a patient who had her gall bladder out on Tues. evening. I recommended some Relief Tone and Inflamma Force. The patient facebook’d me today and said she hasn’t had any pain meds since Weds.; that the Relief Tone and Inflamma Force were more than enough without the negative side effects of Darvocet! Woohoo!
Yay!