So You Think Medicine is Modern?: Revolutionising Health Care for the 21st Century

A revolutionary new approach to medicine could potentially save a quarter of a million lives over the next five years, as well as rising healthcare dollars, and help people better manage their own health. In his new book So You Think Medicine is Modern? Dr Eddie Price calls upon Australia's health professionals, administrators and policy makers to update the diagnostic and treatment methods that are hurting rather than helping patients. Committed to changing the way medicine is practised in Australia, the Sydney practitioner contends that healthcare in the western world has reached crisis point, plagued by the use of outdated science and archaic systems which ignore the theories and discoveries of the 20th Century's great thinkers. After 10 years of research and hypothesising on ground-breaking scientific theories, Dr Price declares that it is time that medical practitioners and administrators alike transform the way they approach their patients' health, and that there is now no denying the scientific basis for a modified approach to treatment. "We now know that all living organisms exist in a much more fluid, dynamic state than we once thought, and that this is the spark of life. We also have the scientific evidence to prove mind can and does affect matter and that past experience affects the physical condition of the body," said Dr Price. "The traditional man as machine approach which reduces the body into its components denies this dynamic state of the human form. Focusing on the patient's living environment, lifestyle and wellbeing as a whole is far more effective than treating body parts in isolation to other organs and systems," he said. Dr Price asserts that thousands of preventable deaths and hospital acquired infections occur in the developed world each year as a result of an antiquated healthcare model which overutilises harmful anaesthetics, invasive diagnostic testing, inappropriate hospitalisations and expensive surgeries that actually reduce rather than improve wellness. Encouraging doctors to embrace computer based diagnostic tests, Dr Price said that there are a range of non-invasive tools now available which allow both practitioners and patients to measure functional health, rather than the condition of an individual body part. "Advances in information technology allow us to update medical practice and gather, process and publish data on health status and gains at the individual, regional and national level," said Dr Price. "These tools do work, and are in many cases far more effective than the expensive and dangerous treatments used in modern medicine. In my own practice, I have used e-health tools to develop preventive health prescriptions for patients and to measure their functional heath status," "It is about time that practitioners moved out of the dark ages, stopped denying a century of scientific breakthroughs and embraced this new technology,"