This is an excellent post and it's great to read @nonzerosum comments on moving healthcare towards a more integrated understanding including the impact of psychological and emotional factors on what has been deemed to be purely physical in the past.
I am really excited about these understandings becoming more publicly accepted and the future of medicine with an understanding of epigenetic factors, therefore looking at physical, mental, emotional, social and environmental aspects in health.
I agree. I feel like this will require healthcare to be changed dramatically. It also causes some concern, at least for me. Because things like emotion, etc. are very subjective, how will it be applied to modern healthcare? The doctor will need more time with a patient. Doctors tend to be overworked as is, so we’ll need more doctors. This is just an example, but there are many more issues. Modern healthcare, I think, will not be feasible in the future (there are already huge problems here in Germany). This will require smarter people to work harder than the clowns we somehow continue to elect into offices. Cheers!
Some things will always be subjective. Emotions are felt differently by different people, although there is some common ground of course. Likewise, anything that is happening in the subconscious and unconscious mind will be subjective as well.
However, there are very effective ways of working with these aspects that can be done along with medical treatment.
Examples are EFT (tapping), Havening, hypnosis, NLP etc, which are all being increasingly understood and tested. These could save health authorities a lot of money as they can be quick and effective.