My journey into healthcare began way back in 1976. I was working as an office supply company delivery-boy in Tallahassee, FL. My only skill-set from my undergraduate education that I could use in that town was programming computers and, alas, no job positions open. I drove that little white Ford pickup around to everyone needing office supplies for about six months before I got a job with the State of Florida using COBOL to program mainframe computers utilizing über-technology – card punch cards.
During this time, I read many books on alternative healthcare and holistic philosophy. It was then that I began my continuing study of homeopathy. I guess the epiphany I had was “there has to be more than this?” Modern medicine was (and remains) reductionist in its thinking. Everything could be distilled into the molecules and processes that define life (similar to the recently “discovered” God-particle by our particle physicists). Where was the magic in that? It took away my involvement in my own health! “Something was rotten in the state of Denmark!” Holistic medicine allowed for the interaction between the mind and the body. It viewed the body as a complex system of interactions between multiple variables and an ever-moving point of balance or homeostasis. This described a web-like model in which everything was a result of, and causal to everything else.
There was more than the molecule!
This was a turning point and the beginning of my journey into healthcare.