Medical Brief

This is brief blurb on a subject I've been ruminating and dialoging about for two decades. The subject is medicine, especially the welcome challenges of CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) to the modern medical model. With current fears about "pandemic" being inflamed by hyperbolic media coverage of the H1N1 virus, the subject is on my mind once again.
"Medicine" is a word that has a rich etymology that goes all the way back to the origins of language itself. It's meaning begins as "thought" itself, reminding me of Dr. Julian Jaynes argument about the "Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-cameral Mind". His theory is that our brains were once a single lobe. During that time, we didn't have the capacity for reflective thought, acting more or less instinctively, much like the rest of the world's critters. The evolution of the hemispheric brain enabled us to have "internal conversations", i.e., "thoughts".
We then discover the roots of "medicine" evolving the meaning of "judgment", as thinking leads to discernment and discrimination between and among elements of our environment. "This is better than that ... that is a friend, this is a foe", etc. Further development includes the emergence of a class of people refered to as "mediators", priests to mediate between people and gods, and later doctors to mediate between common people and the mysteries of their bodies.
Consider this analogy: as the Protestant Reformation reflected the beginning of an age of empowerment of the masses through access to information through print media, and the throwing off of the authority of "mediators" in their relationship to knowledge, might we be in the throes of a Medical Reformation, reflected in the growing distrust of medical authority and re-discovery and recovery of a personal, unmediated relationship with our bodies, ourselves?