So we talked about the mental health portion of this concept
yesterday. However, I hinted that the physical portion of the idea was not just
doctors. So to satisfy your curiosity, let us begin.
Aid Church: So like mental health, Priests
specialized in different forms of physical health will be divided up between
churches, with some specializing in one kind or another. Yes, doctors in
the form of nurse practitioners will be in some to provide basic diagnosis for
common problems like bumps and bruises to the cold and the flu. It will
focus primarily on physical exams and inoculations as it takes a lot of
infrastructure and expensive equipment for more complex medical care. As
such, that will be only a small portion of aid churches providing that form of
care due to expenses (we have to teach a priest to be a doctor so of course
just making it free will be difficult). Therefore the other parts of physical
health will be people who specialize in things like nutrition or even yoga and
Tai-chi. Yes, simple things we take for granted health wise. Real
physical health. Nutritionists will need simple blood testing machines
that are becoming cheaper so as to help their patients develop an eating plan
for their dietary needs. Weight loss specialists for those patients that
are obese or are suffering from weight related problems will team up with
nutritionists and therapists. Yoga, tai-chi and other soft martial arts
and meditative practices will aid in helping people keep their body in shape
without mutilating themselves through over exercise. There may even be
room for exercise equipment and physical (recover from injuries) and
occupational (develop ways to overcome physical disabilities in work and at
home) therapy equipment for physical and occupational therapists to have a role
in the physical health portion in these aid churches. Helping people
recover from accidents and for dealing with disabilities is something that can
be expensive, but if a priest does it for free, then more people will have
access. The physical health field is wide and even includes studying the
movement of the body to aid people in knowing how to prevent injuries to themselves.
Disease prevention and learning how to use medication properly will also
be something that is key. These priests, once they obtain the knowledge
and gain the experience needed will be able to pass that knowledge on to their
patients and parishioners in the form of free education. As such, the church
can become a pseudo college or licensing course for people interested in these
fields like yoga instructor, fitness instructor or nutritionist. Seminars
for learning first aid and CPR can also be provided. All of it dealing
with people's physical health and teaching and working with them to maintain
that health.
Conclusion: Like with the previous mental
health portion, the biggest issue primarily is educating these priests or
rabbi/imam as the case may be. However it is still free health care by
people who give of themselves more than they take. Priests and their
counterparts in other faiths are meant to be teachers, and expanding that to
being healers only makes logical sense. Churches are seeing less and less
people because they do not stand for anything, they do not take on the issues,
but at least they can still do some good by helping to become a network of
people who help people both mentally and physically while they work out what
they stand for. See you tomorrow for part three of this concept, the
actual funding for this idea to get it off the ground and how we can work to
make health care truly free.
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