A guest post by Sara Calabro for Rowdy Kittens

Sara is an acupuncturist and the founding editor of AcuTake, a blog dedicated to improving acupuncture education and access.

We’ve arrived at a point of tension. Technology has enabled possibilities that just 10 years ago seemed unthinkable. And yet these same advancements have deprived us of some of our most basic abilities, instincts and pleasures. This conflict has spurred an ongoing and at-times-heated debate that’s being played out everywhere from the blogosphere to the classroom to the boardroom. However, one area where the topic is being discussed much less than it should be is in healthcare.

Medicine—particularly in the West, but growingly, around the world—has become dominated by an obsession... More...