BE WELL AGAIN

I was raised in middle class Australia in an all-white family of medical practitioners. From early childhood, something has always driven me to understand more about the human body. As a child in a wheelchair up to age 5, and before attending formal school classes from age 8, I was an avid reader of my father's medical books... I incessantly questioned my father about anatomy, physiology, and the surgical procedures he performed as a surgeon. In fact, from age three, I observed many surgical operations from the viewer's gallery of hospital operating theatres. Perhaps today that would not be permitted for such young children... My childhood medical condition gave me the opportunity to experience first-hand the best that allopathic western medicine, surgery, and medical procedures could provide. In my particular case, it could not heal my non-functioning hip and inability to move my right leg. As you would expect, that left me with an indelible, biased impression, and conclusion about..