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Transcript: Stephen P. Bradley, M.D.


[Bradley:]
I look at it almost from an artist’s perspective. I say, you can use your palette of primary colors, which is what we are armed with in medicine, which Western medicine has been immensely successful in many, many fields, especially in acute medicine for dealing with trauma, dealing with problems, and let’s not underestimate—people died all through the centuries from simple infectious diseases, from accidents by the droves. We are helping to resolve that problem quite a bit. The problem we are not dealing too well with is the chronic diseases, especially as we get older, as populations those keep coming out more and more, and we’re not truly prepared to deal with them. Whereas some of the traditional healing practices that do look at the whole person, do look at the environment, do look at a lot of different spirituality, etc., they may have a little bit more of a handle on that.