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from November 1992 issue of 'Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology'
By Otto H. Schmitt |
| Given adequate diligence and dedication, we should be
able by the millennial year 2000 to report as "in operation" a System
Reengineered Plan incorporating the following advances:
1. Sufficient professional security and tolerance to allow the
now-taboo-and-neglected prime features of quality of life, mind, spirit,
and soul to be added to our currently accepted body and brain functions;
to allow "consciousness," at its several levels, to become a regular part
of health care procedures.
2. A rudimentary insight into rules of advanced consciousness "field
theory" to allow us to investigate usefully, as fundamentals of life
communication., what are now regarded as "paranormal."
3. The rapid emergence of an acknowledged "new" science and technology
based on life itself, "biomimetic science and technology" and its
important subset incorporating the Santosha Index, understanding of the
quality of life at the individual level, at the family or "group" level,
and at the community level, possibly going to the global level.
At the operational level this system plan must offer:
5. A whole-life medical-history card in each person's possession giving a
cursive life-trajectory-oriented, detailed, personal medical and life
progress history, easily updatable (but not deletable), inexpensive,
robust, and structured to allow matching with similar histories in a
large national data bank for ergodically adjusted prognoses and
recommendations.
6. Public and professional understanding of our intellectual progression
from the "homeostatic" view of self-regulation, where, through adjustment
to the changing vicissitudes of life, we gain some extension of rewarding
life, to the new "enlightened" view of technically, pharmacologically,
and mentally reprogrammed lifestyle, and consciously perceived reality,
toward the goal of multifaceted and enhanced optimized life quality.
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7. Identification, education, and establishment of
necessary "new and different" health care professionals fitting the new
system to avoid the huge cost and liability of using a "one size fits
all" physician image, in an automation-cobbled-up adaptation of the
classic, simplistic individual patient-physician relationship.
8. A welcomed development and move into the home, as a family friend or
pet companion, of the modularly organized, individually parametrized,
health care computer, with instructional prompting, advice resources, and
competence to participate in diagnostic, monitoring, training,
therapeutic, and even rehabilitative procedures, in the home environment,
but compatible with health maintenance organization (HMO) or other
traditional modes of care, and adapted for quality of life
interpretations.
9. A full national Strand Epidemiology Library database from which to
extract ergodically adapted medical and quality of life records for
empirical or theory-based treatment and lifestyle recommendation
plans.
10. A good repertoire of quality of life components organized
hierarchically on at least the three primary levels of consciousness: 1)
ordinary perceptive consciousness - "projection screen of reality" type,
2) the multibranch subconsciousness, and 3) at least the first level of
superconsciousness.
11. National awareness and eagerness to accept the possibility of being
offered personally adapted life plans adjusted for individual strengths,
weaknesses, and eccentricities, with a choice, readaptable at any time,
of several comprehensive available, attractive, fulfilling, and otherwise
rewarding "life plans" readily alterable utilizing the "Three Quadrature"
insight into appreciation of time-series events, including the human life
career.
12. Well-planned "carrot and stick" strategies for research and
development, marketing, education, and public relations to persuade
legislators, academic researchers and educators, and biomedical device
and service suppliers, among others, to find rewards and avoid penalties
by cooperating with this overall plan or improving and extending
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