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hazelnut said:
I am reading now some papers by an M.D. who claims to be a proponent of "systems biology". He says my patients bring to me their whole list of complaints and I look at them all and try to find out how they are interconnected. Of course for most ailments, you have to go a specialist rather than this holistic m.d.. You don't go to a psychiatrist for a pain in your foot. Perhaps in the new world, you will go to one doctor and he will treat both your foot, and what ever is wrong with your head at the same time. That is the potential of systems thinking. Its a way to understand complexities -- instead of just viewing only the more simplistic aspects.

I should wait and read the rest of this thread, but a medical intuitive might tell you that you *need* to see a psychiatrist for that pain in your foot. The body is a totally integrated system, and we ignore that at our peril. (in my opinion, as a non-medical, non-medical-intuitive kind of gal)