The role of holistic gynecologist is different from the role of the standard Western medical gynecologist. The role of the standard Western medical gynecologist is threefold:
1) The standard Western medical gynecologist operates from the same precepts as all other all other western medical doctors, “Every disease is a deficiency of one or another medication.”
2) The standard Western gynecologist is trained as a surgeon, to the medically oriented gynecologist surgery (including biopsy’s and organ removal) are standard tools and solutions. Surgery, along with prescription drugs, the primary arsenal which the medical gynecologist has in order to fight medical problems. For the medical gynecologist these weapons are the first line of defense and the main tools used to treat just about every gynecologic problem.
3) The standard Western medical doctor has from the beginning of his or her training been indoctrinated and told over and over again, that he or she, the doctor, is in charge, and that only their word, their medical decisions, their beliefs are relevant. They are also told repeatedly in many different ways their patients are ignorant, untrained, unschooled, even stupid, and should have little or no say in their health care except to give consent so that the practitioner cannot later on be sued by their uneducated and often predatory patients. It is not part of their training to ask, listen too or deeply care about their patient. If they discuss anything with their patient or bring the patient into the decision-making process, except at the very end, after they have poisoned the tree with fear and treats of impairment and death, then it is to only get the patient to believe in what they have decided is best for them and hence give their for permission to perform surgery, hence to remove the dying tree, they have just poisoned.
This might sound excessively harsh. Maybe it is. On the other hand, having practiced obstetrics and gynecology for more than 42 years, I believe it is a relatively sound observation.
The role of the holistic gynecologist, as I see it is a partnership with the patient/client, the person who is either suffering or requires help, to give them not only the very best medical and healing care possible with the least intervention, to avoid surgery whenever possible, to only use medication when there are no other choices, but to at all costs to avoid any treatment that is potentially harmful or dangerous, whenever there is a lesser dangerous treatment available. To do all of this also requires that the holistic gyn listens to what the patients feels is causing their problem(s), and what the patients believes will reverse, treat or cure his or her problems, and what they want and need to have happen to completely heal them of all medical, emotional, mental or spiritual problems.
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