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Ann Tomoko Rosen's avatar

How did it become so devoid of compassion? I think it was done systemically. Dispassionate science separated out empathy in the name of making it impartial. I remember taking issue with aspects of this in my 20s, when my then boyfriend was in medical school. My mother at the time had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, so I was seeing his training and her treatment simultaneously. It was eye-opening. And even in acupuncture/Chinese medicine school (which I decided to attend after that awakening), I found the emotional distancing troubling. I understand the importance of boundary-setting, but healing resonance is a thing, an important and miraculous thing, and it’s been removed from medicine and replaced with protocol.

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Nicola's avatar

Maybe it was when abortion became legal. Dehuminize a human being in the womb by calling it a lump of tissue.

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Frances Lynch's avatar

US medicine went from being nonprofit to profit in the late 70's. When it happened, the patient became prey and here we are.

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Aion's avatar

I think it happens naturally. As far as I'm concerned, the spirit of science is the spirit of lucifer, the light bearer. The light of rationality, same as lucifer can be a beautiful angel, it can also be a narcissistic endeavor that falls in love with its machinations and dares try to correct the hand of God. Therein lies the sin of hubris.

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Aion's avatar

More on that, trying to ease suffering, in my eyes is not sin, wondering at the mechanisms of creation and trying to understand is even divine.

Trying to 'improve' humankind, genetic engineering, geoengineering is sin, as far as I care to elucidate.

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