{"id":1319,"date":"2019-05-20T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartbasedmedicine.org\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:43:22","slug":"life-is-more-intelligent-than-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartbasedmedicine.org\/en\/life-is-more-intelligent-than-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is More Intelligent than Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1319\"  class=\"panel-layout\" >\n<div id=\"pg-1319-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" >\n<div id=\"pgc-1319-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell panel-grid-cell-empty\"  data-weight=\"1\" ><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"pg-1319-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" >\n<div id=\"pgc-1319-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"  data-weight=\"1\" >\n<div id=\"panel-1319-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;}\" >\n<div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fourteen-year-old Tina would teach me more about medicine and the life force than I thought I needed to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doors of the emergency room swung open as the paramedic team swept in. I was standing in line on the receiving hospital team, ready for the handover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018We have Tina, a 14-year-old girl with suspected bacterial meningitis,\u2019 we were told. \u2018She weighs about 40 kg and is febrile and drowsy. Her neck is stiff, she has a petechial rash and her breathing and circulation are rapid but stable. We\u2019ve started IV fluids.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a few more exchanges we confirm the handover, connect Tina to our monitoring units, start IV antibiotics. After talking with her parents, we perform a lumbar puncture. Despite our efforts, Tina was getting worse and worse. She was unconscious by the time she went to the Intensive Care Unit. A team of four dedicated and caring medical professionals battled to keep her alive, inserting a breathing tube and catheters through her veins which almost reached her heart. Tina was also receiving lots of intravenous fluids, blood transfusions and drugs which regulated her heart, blood circulation, clotting, kidneys and other bodily functions. After a few hours, she seemed to be stabilising and I handed her over to the next shift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That evening, as I settled into bed, I ran the day through my mind and recalled Tina\u2019s case. Immediately, histological images of healthy brain tissue and meningitis flashed through my mind. I watched with interest as these mind movies showed me cartoons of immune responses. They then expanded until I could visualise the myriad of body functions taking place during such an overwhelming infection. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could see how we as medics were doing our best to support all these bodily functions as best we could throughout this healing process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although I was thankful to the miraculous modern medicine that helped keep Tina alive that day, I felt even more awe for the human body and its ability to regulate itself, overcome disease and self-repair. It became clear to me how vital \u2013 but small \u2013 the medical contribution was to Tina\u2019s ability to heal. Her body had been keeping her brain safe for 14 years. On that day, it was her body that had regulated her stability while we messed around with it. And now her body\u2019s healing capacity would be called upon to make major repairs so that she could continue living a normal life. Modern medicine, with all its achievements, could only take on a fraction of the body\u2019s functions, not to mention the repair of cells and tissues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was this life force that conducted such a vast orchestra?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018In the end, it\u2019s life energy that allows us to change and adapt, while healing and medicine can only sometimes create an enabling environment,\u2019 I heard myself say out loud to my wife Jessica, lying next to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Interesting you should say that,\u2019 Jessica was clearly not asleep either. \u2018My brother just told me he\u2019d witnessed the spontaneous remission of a tumour and my thoughts keep spinning around this woman who was given a second chance at life.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Really? Wow. Isn\u2019t it amazing how little we know about health and the true cause of disease? And how much we feel we know because of all the things we can do? Life is so much more intelligent than even today\u2019s medicine.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We paused in respectful silence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018You know, maybe we should pay more attention to the placebo group in all these studies. Rather than taking them as baseline, we should examine them and learn about the body\u2019s self-regulatory capacities and how to support them,\u2019 Jessica added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was thinking hard. What if we changed our idea that practitioners have all the answers while the patient sits by passively at the receiving end, like a consumer? What if, instead of our usual biomechanical approach where we consider all the symptoms, arrive at a diagnosis and prescribe a treatment plan, we take a different route and form a kind of therapeutic alliance? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we could assume that the patient has all the solutions, perhaps the role of the healthcare worker would then be to help the patient access this healing potential and heal themselves at a much deeper level?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A week later, I noticed Tina\u2019s name on the transfer list from ICU to my ID ward. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018How are you, Tina? I am so glad to see you!\u2019 I said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tina looked at me, then at her mother, and once more back at me before exclaiming \u2018This is the doctor who I saw from above saying \u201cCome on, you can do it Tina! You will make it! We are fighting for you to survive!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She turned to me and smiled gently. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because of you, Doctor, I did not give up.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That moment will stay with me for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story above is based on personal experiences. 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