Reckless Abandon: High-Tech Medicine for High-Touch Healthcare
Tia Jamir, PhD, Chaplain Supervisor, Baylor Scott and White Health
Michael Francis Maskow, MS, BSWH Transparency Manager, Quality Office, Strategy & Ops, Baylor Scott and White Health
This paper addresses the ‘hard-problems’ of physicality, survival, disease and evolution as inherently ‘self-transforming’, claiming that mature means necessarily require moving through a ‘dis-enchantment’ stage to ‘re-enchantment’. This paper frames the current transformation from a ‘dis-enchanted’ to ‘re-enchanted’ medicine as an influential heart of the transformation from a ‘dis-eased’ to a ‘re-inspired’ state of local-to-global health and happiness. We outline some of the roots of disenchantment in medicine, society, and personal health – touching on key historical ‘dis-enchanting’ periods of influence on medicine, such as the inquisition, industry, and modern warfare. We re-examine some roots of personal enchantment in medicine, re-connecting audience with those childhood moments of ‘wonder, inspiration, awe, and terror’ that stand in the fire of formal education and social expectations. We draw these observations together with the integral model of human and organizational development, and the theological model of ‘abundant living’ into in an affirmative, forward-reaching statement of healing and health.
We touch on the driving evolutionary trajectory to continuously re-develop and re-balance ‘analytic’ (left-brain) and ‘aesthetic’ (right-brain) intelligence, toward the realization of a mature integrated, humane, ‘artistic’ intelligence. Medicine like our culture needs more prophets, poets and artist. We make mention of advancements in human vision, communication and production technology as key breakthroughs which are currently refining and accelerating the recognition of global responsibility and the means to achieve it. We propose a unifying cultural meme, of ‘caring for the wonder’ as a skillful means to leverage the cultural dimension of development to energize and direct ongoing technical innovation to match our broadest and deepest values.
Our conclusions are an open-ended invitation to render medicine as a core catalyst for transforming the body politic, enacting ‘just’ (healthy) values that integrate and advance global ecology and local economy, with personal elation.
Michael Francis Maskow, MS, BSWH Transparency Manager, Quality Office, Strategy & Ops, Baylor Scott and White Health
This paper addresses the ‘hard-problems’ of physicality, survival, disease and evolution as inherently ‘self-transforming’, claiming that mature means necessarily require moving through a ‘dis-enchantment’ stage to ‘re-enchantment’. This paper frames the current transformation from a ‘dis-enchanted’ to ‘re-enchanted’ medicine as an influential heart of the transformation from a ‘dis-eased’ to a ‘re-inspired’ state of local-to-global health and happiness. We outline some of the roots of disenchantment in medicine, society, and personal health – touching on key historical ‘dis-enchanting’ periods of influence on medicine, such as the inquisition, industry, and modern warfare. We re-examine some roots of personal enchantment in medicine, re-connecting audience with those childhood moments of ‘wonder, inspiration, awe, and terror’ that stand in the fire of formal education and social expectations. We draw these observations together with the integral model of human and organizational development, and the theological model of ‘abundant living’ into in an affirmative, forward-reaching statement of healing and health.
We touch on the driving evolutionary trajectory to continuously re-develop and re-balance ‘analytic’ (left-brain) and ‘aesthetic’ (right-brain) intelligence, toward the realization of a mature integrated, humane, ‘artistic’ intelligence. Medicine like our culture needs more prophets, poets and artist. We make mention of advancements in human vision, communication and production technology as key breakthroughs which are currently refining and accelerating the recognition of global responsibility and the means to achieve it. We propose a unifying cultural meme, of ‘caring for the wonder’ as a skillful means to leverage the cultural dimension of development to energize and direct ongoing technical innovation to match our broadest and deepest values.
Our conclusions are an open-ended invitation to render medicine as a core catalyst for transforming the body politic, enacting ‘just’ (healthy) values that integrate and advance global ecology and local economy, with personal elation.