I have a pathological fear of doctors’ offices. I have spent too much time listening to too many doctors tell me too many hypotheses, prove none, prescribe much, charge more, and fix nothing. It has led me to where I am today–too anxious to set foot near any of them.

I have tried time and again to find a doctor who will listen, who will think outside the box without disregarding the box, and who will respect that the body, as God has made it, is a self-correcting mechanism operating as a whole unit. The foot is connected to the brain, the brain to the uterus (not yours, boys), the womb to the heart, and so on along the intricately interwoven parts of the body.

Too often a doctor will throw drugs at a problem, fixing it, or at least masking it, while causing another problem. The solution: why, more drugs of course! Or let’s just cut you open! It’s a convoluted road of anxiety and frustration for the patient.

Then there is the opposite extreme: parents and professionals scaring other parents into believing their children will get autism, cancer, and the mega-bugs if the parents follow conventional medicine. It’s paralyzing!

If only…

If only the natural side of healing could work hand-in-hand with the medical community. What a blessing that would be! If only, instead of our OBGYNs scaring us into testing and treatment and hospital interventions, we could have their support for a more peaceful birth experience. If only our pediatricians would listen to concerns about vaccines and naturalists would listen to our concerns about a lack of vaccines, and together they could find a more middle-of-the-road approach. If only people would use antibiotics when needed, but only when needed, and guide the parents along on a healing plan.

If only…

If only we could be supported in our balanced desires to have a more natural birth, a more natural baby, a more natural child, maybe then I wouldn’t be quite as frightened walking into a doctor’s office or a naturalist clinic. Maybe then I would be walking into a team meeting instead of entering a battle zone where I have to stand up for my personal health convictions. Maybe I could avoid receiving the sad head-shake meaning “You poor misinformed woman,” despite (or because of) my lack of extremism. Maybe then I would know that the doctor was looking out for our best interests and that when he did prescribe antibiotics or did stand firm about the need for a certain vaccination, I could rest assured it was not his blanket policy or drug-promo perk program strategy, but was really what was best for the child.

While I do not want to trust my children’s health to a waving of sage brush through the air and a chant, I similarly do not want to pummel their bodies with drugs. There is a happy medium. There must be!

When all the smoke and noise from the oft-heated battles between both sides die down, perhaps the naturalist and the physician can shake hands and meet in the middle. When the two link up, I’ll be happy, or at least a tad less anxious. In the meantime, I have a doctor’s appointment in a couple weeks. Anybody want to come hold my hand?

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