Doctor Kinley Tshering is presently working in Jigme Dorji Wangchuk National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) as a Pediatrician and he is specialist in child health care and he has Bio-chemicals and medicines as his background studies for five and half years of training. Dr. Tshering shares so many fearful experiences while he was on training. Dr. Tshering also believes that listening to patients are more important in life than to make patients listen to him. The key aspect of his talk was to give a brief historical background on health and disease in Bhutan. He also highlighted about the modern medicine and its effectiveness. According to Dr. Tshering, (2014) his main aim of delivering the lecture was to give awareness on health progress, health achievements and the challenges and issues while providing free medical services in Bhutan. He further states that the scattered population and rugged terrain hampers health workers to travel from village to village for the awareness programme and providing treatment to the patients. He also talked about the availability of health facilities around the country and the drastic improvement in medical care. The nature of his job seems to be very tiring, risky and sacrificing his precious time for the wellbeing of his patients.
Madam Namgay Lhamo is working as a instructor in National Institute for Medical Sciences (NIMS). Before joining National Institute of Traditional Medicine, she worked as lecturer in Paro College of Education (PCE). She talked about the Bhutanese traditional medicine and how it came into existence in Bhutan. She also gave us brief history about Traditional Medicine which is purely based on Buddhist philosophy. She also talked about the name Sowa Rigpa for traditional med...
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...ressure, Diabetes, Kidney failure, Cancer and heart diseases are getting common among the Bhutanese people and needs to do surgery or refer patients outside. Therefore chances are high that modern medicine may take over the tradition medicine to treat non-communicable diseases. But upcoming of private hospitals may introduce new medication for the treatment of chronic diseases in traditional method with pure herbal medicines. The practice of traditional medicine may also continue because there are also people who have strong belief in culture and tradition and also dissatisfaction with the modern medicine especially old age people feel that traditional medicine suits their age.
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This book addresses one of the common characteristics, and challenges, of health care today: the need to achieve a working knowledge of as many cultures as possible in health care. The Hmong population of Merced, California addresses the collision between Western medicine and holistic healing traditions of the Hmong immigrants, which plays out a common dilemma in western medical centers: the need to integrate modern western medicinal remedies with aspects of cultural that are good for the well-being of the patient, and the belief of the patient’s ability to recuperate. What we see is a clash, or lack of integration in the example of the story thereof. Lia, a Hmong child with a rare form of epilepsy, must enter the western hospital instead of the Laotian forest. In the forest she would seek out herbs to remedy the problems that beset her, but in the west she is forced to enter the western medical hospital without access to those remedies, which provided not only physical but spiritual comfort to those members of the Hmong culture. The herbs that are supposed to fix her spirit in the forest are not available in the western hospital. The Merced County hospital system clashes with Hmong animist traditions.
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From a western perspective, children and the elderly are the most vulnerable population and need to be given extra attention and precautions. I shadowed a pharmacist working at a children’s hospital and observed the level of care given to the patients. Fadiman evidently wants the reader to understand how cultural differences can become a barrier in providing medical care. Bruce Thowpaou Bliatout, a Hmong medical administrator, provides some measures to improve Hmong healthcare, including minimizing blood drawing, allowing shamanic ceremonies in the hospital, involving family and encouraging traditional arts.
Through showing the different definitions of health, the authors explain how those different understandings affect patterns of behavior on health depend on different cultures. In addition, an analysis of the models of health demonstrates even western medical approaches to health have different cognitions, same as the Indigenous health beliefs. The most remarkable aspect is a balance, a corresponding core element in most cultures which is an important consideration in Indigenous health as well. From an Indigenous perspective, health is considered as being linked, and keeping the connection is a priority to preserve their health. Consequently, health is a very much culturally determined. Health practitioners should anticipate and respect the cultural differences when they encounter a patient from various cultures. In particular, this article is good to understand why the Indigenous health beliefs are not that different than western medicine views using appropriate examples and comparative composition, even though the implementation the authors indicated is a bit abstract, not
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The philosophy and practice is composed of many different systems of traditional medicine, which are all influenced by prevailing conditions, environment, and geographic area within, where it first evolved into WHO (2005). Although it is a common
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It is estimated that around the world, 80% of people use herbal medicines as a primary health care through the World Health Organization("Herbal Medicine: MedlinePlus.").This makes sense, since some of the most populated places on earth are China and India which are third world nations that cannot afford and have not been modernized completely still sticking to ancient practice that are reliably for them.Even though the United States is a first world nation,Americans have a lower life expectancy and worse health care than all the other first world nations(Bland, DR. Jeffrey S). This fact is incredibly starling for the reason that the US has some most advanced treatments in the world.The problem is that contagious illness will not kill, but the chronic ones like heart disease and diabetes will kills society.“ Yet that is exactly the same medicine today as society face a tsunami of chronic disease that will cost on global economy 47 trillion dollars over the next 20 years and kill twice as many people around the world as infectious diseases(Bland, DR. Jeffrey S).”The truth is that treating the chronic disorders is not cheaper and is not realistic.The health care is like anything less it should be focused on preparing the problems the same as a someone would change the oil in their car so that it does not blow up the engine and the machining have to replace the whole thing.This is like what people are doing today, but unlike a car person cannot replace the engine when it is destroyed .Think about the numbers the facts is that if doctors were proving diseased that people could treat more people that more serious disease fully.Researcher could spend more time understanding the mind more and less threatening destroyed that still legitimately affects
The principal role of modern medicine is to achieve full health of the citizens. Due to the society we live in, there are a lot...
When you are sick you take medicine, but there are many remedies for the same problems. The use of herbal remedies traces back to the Chinese in the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well by a compiled book in China written back more than 2,000 years ago (Wachtel-Galor & Benzie, 2011). Modern medicine has roots that are more recent in the development and production of synthesize drugs (Wachtel-Galor & Benzie, 2011). The old generations took herbal remedies to improve their health, but now as time and people, progressed modern medicine comes on top. Herbal and modern medicines have good and bad points, but one has qualities that are more effective.
People often choose Herbal Medicine over the prescribed and conventional medicine when they have a lifelong health complication. More so, Herbal Medicine is not just to cure such health problems, it also improves the overall well-being, many health enthusiast use herbal medicine to preclude illness or to assure a healthier lifestyle.
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