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Hi Lisa. I think that it is important to remember that whichever field of medicine you go into you will find that macrobiotics can always play a major role in the treatment process, but not all people will want or will respond to macrobiotics. That is the dichotomy with the profession. You need to be responsive to both those who seek the mainstream and those who seek the alternative. For the mainstream you can always make more holistic/macrobiotic suggestions and give dietary recomendations along with whtever else is prescribed. Tlaking about food is always beneficial and usually the first questions people ask about their health conditions is food-related: "I must ate something bad" or "I've been eating alot of junk food lately", etc.
I have a friend that I met some 20 years ago when I first began to study Tai CHi. He is a pediatrician, an MD. Yet he is ALSO the most well-known HOMOEPATHIC doctor in Rhoe Island! His name is Jerry Kupperberg and he treats children as well as adults with homeopahtic remedies. He lives in Foster, RI. For difficult or compliated problems he resorts to traditional forms of allopathic treatment. He does a great job. He also uses whole foods, herbs, etc. Maybe someday you can meet with him to get some ideas about your own practice. He knows about macrobiotic as well.
If you choose pathology I think that with the recent discoveries with DNA mapping and other biotech advances that you will ened up onthe cutting edge of medicine and will be seeing yin/yang from the microscopic viewpoint which can tell much about the whole person. You will always have work in this field the way medicine is evolving. I like pediatrics myself and a former girfriend of mine decided to go into this field because she loved children and thought that she would do more good. She also knows abut macrobiotics and is a vegetarian. She made history a few years ago when she blew the whistle on a father who abused one of her patients. She is very brave -- once she left a bar room where we were dancing to break up a fight between two men and a woman in a motorcycle gang! Yeah, I watched from the door way and kept telling her to let them solve their own problems but she didn't listen and walking into the dark alley where there is screaming and pulled the woman away from the two men.
So from that incident I knew she would be a good doctor and had a big heart and would put her life on the line to save another person. Can you do that? I don't think too many would be doctors really have what it takes but maybe I am wrong. I am happy with my Urologist and Otologist (Ear). My Otologist is also famous as he developed the procedure called the stapedectomy.
He was able to me my hearing back to 100 percent in both ears.
To me this was like a miracle to bea able to hear again. Dentistry is another important "line" of doctoring and our teeth are needed to help process foods so that we can get nourishment. MAcrobiotics and non-macros alike all go to the dentist at some point in time. You will know what is best for when the time comes. There is no need to think that you will end up pushing pills. I have the greatest respect for the medical profession. Pleae continue in your studies.
In peace, Roy
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