I have always wanted to learn medicine slowly - over years.
So I read medical text books slowly over years.
I find it amazing that we give so much agency to doctors over our health while we know relatively very little about our own bodies and health.
And biology is a big part of that learning.
I now study medical books on my soare time.
Would recommend “Clinical Methods” as your first foray. You will understand your doctor and the biology is immediately applicable in your
Daily life.
Ie how to deal with fevers in your kids.
After that learn about your skeletal system and biomechanics.
Next Neuro degenerative disease and the brain.
Once you’ve caught the learning bug, you can go into 1st year Med
School curricula and then the rest from there.
Some big parts of medicine is relatively useless - psychology for example.
Would recommend learning meditation ina real way and reading “Right Concentration.”. Learning about jhanas and mental states.
I remember as a kid when they asked me what I wanted to do, I never understood why I couldn’t do all of the above.
while I'm pretty despondent with the replication crisis in psychology, medicine isn't much better.
but to dismiss it outright is pretty ignorant. curious how you explain the state of America if your assertion is psychology and mental health are "relatively useless" fields
We have done science here, made hypothesis and tested them. "Western medicine", including therapy and anti-depressants, have been shown to have real, significant, reproducible positive impacts.
It's also difficult to compare to "eastern techniques" since that's a fairly vague term. Perhaps drinking tea, meditating, and getting acupuncture has a more positive impact on one person than taking an anti-depressant, but for another person, anti-depressants may be wildly more effective. Perhaps arranging ones house and diet to maximize "positive chi energy" will help one person, but have no impact on another.
What eastern techniques are you specifically claiming are practical and useful, and for what scenarios? Are the studies that show anti-depressants to have effect wrong, or are they useless because they're inferior in your opinion?
Western methods are very inferior. They work - in the same way that roller blades work for transportation but you'd really rather have a car.
I've studied and used both.
I find it amazing that we give so much agency to doctors over our health while we know relatively very little about our own bodies and health.
And biology is a big part of that learning.
I now study medical books on my soare time.
Would recommend “Clinical Methods” as your first foray. You will understand your doctor and the biology is immediately applicable in your Daily life. Ie how to deal with fevers in your kids.
After that learn about your skeletal system and biomechanics.
Next Neuro degenerative disease and the brain.
Once you’ve caught the learning bug, you can go into 1st year Med School curricula and then the rest from there.
Some big parts of medicine is relatively useless - psychology for example.
Would recommend learning meditation ina real way and reading “Right Concentration.”. Learning about jhanas and mental states.
I remember as a kid when they asked me what I wanted to do, I never understood why I couldn’t do all of the above.