ABSTRACT
Many of the problems that are currently facing medicine result from dualism. Knowledge that is acquired through laboratory tests, experimentation, and clinical instruments is given primacy over soft data. Hence there is no ultimate reality, which has the latitude to condemn other viewpoints to the status of opinion, idealistic rhetoric, or error. Evidence gathered during the past few years has shown that intervention is more successful when rapport is developed between a patient and physician. Supported by modern technology and other improved paraphernalia, the opinion of physicians is given a new aura of respectability. Personal gain, at worst, is argued to be an outgrowth of market factors, as opposed to advantage or chicanery. Consistent with the theory of democracy, this anti-dualistic viewpoint allows the current economic priorities to be dismantled and re-established to meet current needs. In the absence of essentialism, physicians will not be the sole possessors of reason.
