When to Embrace Technology
For many holistic practitioners, technology in medicine is a mixed bag. After all, it really does and has the potential to advance the ability for those in the medical profession to monitor the health of their patients, and in other ways it seems to take us ever further away from a holistic view of humans and health. How can anyone determine when to embrace technology and when to eschew it for more human-scale methods? Well, let's look at one example: breast thermography.
For years, holistic practitioners have felt conflicted about recommending mammography to their clients, knowing that radiation and compression of the breast tissue were both bad ideas, and yet the need for diagnostic and monitoring existed for many women. When a mammography alternative emerged in the form of thermal imaging, it was embraced as a safer way to use technology to monitor the health of breast tissue.