The
Medical Renaissance Movement
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Executive Committee
Dr. Michael Ellis
Prof. Avni Sali
Dr Jager Holly
Dr Ian Dettman
Ms Sandi Rogers (ATMS)
Advisory Board
Prof Marc Cohen
Ms Lesley Pocock
Dr Russell D'Souza
Dr. Luis Vitetta
Mr Phillip Day
Dr Avedesh Sharma
Dr. John Piesse
Corresspondence to:
PO Box 43 Kalorama
Vic 3766
Tel 03 9803 9878
Fax 03 8802 7459
Mobile: 0414 543 397
E-mail: medren@ozemail.com.au
Website: www.medicalrenaissance.com
The Medical Renaissance Movement International
is an organization that truly supports the interests
of medical practitioners, health practitioners,
nurses and the public.
It aims to bring together the global community
of doctors, health practitioners, nurses and
patients to lobby their respective governments
for the creation of a healing culture which
places priority on the health of the individual
rather than on the illness of the individual.
In this respect, it supports preventative, nutritional,
mind/body medicine, naturopathy and Wellness
Medicine and sees healing as being a unique
partnership between the doctor and the patient,
and between allopathic medicine and complimentary
and alternative medicine.
The Medical Renaissance Movement:
- Focuses on healing the whole person - mind,
body and spirit in the context of community.
- Educates and empowers people to be active
participants in their own care. It helps them
to take responsibility for their own health
and wellness.
- Integrates the best of Western scientific
medicine with a broader understanding of the
nature of illness, healing and wellness.
- Uses all appropriate therapeutic approaches
and evidenced-based global medical modalities
to achieve optimal health and healing.
- Encourages the building of healing partnerships
with our patients, and supports the individualisation
of care.
- Aims to create a culture of wellness.
If you would like to become a member of
the Medical Renaissance Movement, and help to
reform the Medical and Health System, please
complete this form and mail, fax or e-mail back
to us ASAP on medren@ozemail.com.au
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The Medical Renaissance Movement aims to lobby
for a form of medicine which is integrative
and health giving and gives individuals the
opportunity to take responsibility for their
own lives and the opportunity to arrest the
development of degenerative disease or prevent
it altogether. It aims to create an organization
that truly supports the interests of medical
practitioners, health practitioners, nurses
and the patients.
There is a global health crisis with an increasing
epidemic of cancer, cardiovascular disease,
obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, stress and
depression. The major cause of this epidemic
is lifestyle and nutrition. Rather than spending
billions of dollars on pharmaceutical products
and biotechnology, the Government should be
using the key principles of integral and nutritional
medicine to promote health and prevent illness.
The pharmaceutical industry, Globally, has
a GDP of over $1 trillion and if Governments
continue to use drugs as a primary treatment
of illness their GDP's will mushroom out of
control.
Implementation of preventive health principles
can save billions in health care costs and these
dollars can then be reinvested into further
research in nutritional and environmental and
mind/body medicine. Indeed, it is recognized
that the next trillion dollar industry in the
world will be the wellness industry.
There are tremendous advances in Complimentary
and Alternative medicine occurring in Europe
and the United States spear headed for example
by the University of California, and the Harvard
Medical School.
Adverse affects from pharmaceutical drugs,
or illness caused by drugs or technological
intervention, is such that the treatment of
such illnesses is now the third most common
cause of death in western society.
The medical system, in Western society,
functions as an anonymous, alienating machine,
in which the hospital is structured like a factory,
in which patients become institutionalized.
Doctors are taught a bio-medical model, which
denies the innate healing capacity of the body
and sees the human being as a machine which
can be fixed by giving a pharmaceutical chemical
drug which has many toxic side effects. Most
of the pharmaceutical compendium which Doctors
consult for prescribing drugs consists of details
of the toxic side effects of the drugs prescribed.
The New Medicine, indeed, encompasses a
healing approach, which sees the individual
as mind, body, and spirit and also as an aspect
of community, environment and culture. For example,
because globally we live in a political system
motivated by fear and scarcity, there is no
reason why we should not extrapolate these as
being some of the causes of the enormous degree
of cardiovascular disease and depression and
stress seen in society.
As Doctors, we need to be aware of ourselves
as healing agents, and therefore also agents
of political change.
There is usually no simplified database referral
procedure or even access for other health care
agencies. Even with a medical or psychiatric
referral it is very difficult for patients to
be seen immediately, unless seen privately.
GPs or primary care physicians rarely get early
feedback about patient care from specialists,
especially in hospitals.
GPs are the meat in the sandwich. They feel
compelled to provide their patients with the
drugs and antibiotics that the patients call
for and yet cannot give adequate care which
requires a preventative, nutritional and lifestyle
approach as they are not paid to do this. This
is because doctors are taught the biomedical
model which is a reductive paradigm and are
not taught about functional medicine which includes
prevention of illness and promotion of health.
Doctors produce band-aid approaches which serve
the financial needs of the pharmaceutical companies
who wish to promote their latest drug.
The new medicine which the Medical Renaissance
Group proposes is an integrated health system
which is based on communication between all
specialties of doctors, as well as other health
professionals. Above and beyond all of this
is the need to change attitudes and mind-set
so that we may have healing in the broadest
possible sense- healing not only of our society,
but of our environment and our planet as they
are all related and all vitally connected.
The system is so narrowly focused and self
regulating it is unable to see the statistical
evidence of burgeoning illness and increased
costs because the biomedical model in itself
is becoming progressively outmoded and is being
taken advantage of to add financial gain to
the GDP.
TARGETS FOR THE MEDICAL RENAISSANCE GROUP
THE MEDICAL RENAISSANCE MOVEMENT
www.medicalrenaissance.com
has the following targets:
- To gain recognition for GPs that they be
recognized as "specialists" in primary
care and the conductors of the primary care
orchestra.
- To promote the primary care physician to
play a more fundamental role in the development
of the future course of primary health care.
The power behind health care initiatives is
the government. It is evident that the government
and the specialized bodies representing the
future of general practice do not adequately
represent the views of GPs in a system which
is becoming more and more based on computerisation,
data storage of records, public health issues
and the formation of strict protocols. This
is because the government and the representative
bodies for GPs are not at the frontline and
are not involved in the practice of medicine
in every day life.
- To promote a hospital culture which is based
on healing, nutrition, and nurturing rather
than compartmentalization, specialisation
and dehumanization where collateral damage
in terms of iatrogenic disease is considered
to be unavoidable.
- To promote an overall holistic view of
medicine within the context of mind, body,
nutritional and environmental medicine, placing
an emphasis on preventative care and lifestyle
change
- The Group proposes to lobby for a New Medicine-
an integrated health system which is based
on communication between all specialties of
doctors as well as other health professionals
with the prime aim of giving members of the
public the opportunity to heal themselves
by using the latest understanding of body
- mind medicine, psychoneuroimmunology, nutritional,
environmental and preventive medicine as well
as accessing the very best of complementary
medicine. There is a need to change attitudes
and mindset so that we have healing in the
broadest possible sense not only of the individual,
but society, and the environment.
- The Medical Renaissance Group promotes
the integration of complementary and alternative
medicine within the Australian medical system
in order to widen choice appropriately and
harness natural healing potential.
- To create public awareness about the pros
and cons of the current medical system based
on the biomedical model and the need for a
more inclusive form of medicine which enables
them to take more responsibility for their
illnesses and also prevent degenerative disease.
- To create the situation whereby doctors
are able to have support groups and support
from peers, so that they do not feel isolated
or alone when put in difficult therapeutic
situations, or have personal problems. In
other words, to provide "healing"
for the healer.
It is the General Practitioner who should
be intimately involved in parameters of health
defined by the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion
from which has been derived the World Health
Authority objectives Health for All by the Year
2000. This includes; Promotion of healthy lifestyles,
Prevention of preventable disease, Increasing
rehabilitation and community health services.
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