The medical doctor focuses on one body part in treating a patient, as if one part can be repaired separately from the others. The belief in physical reductionism looks for causes of disease at more and more basic levels such as genes. This approach excludes social, psychological and ecological dimensions. It focuses on the body as the center of disease control. Hence, it is expected that more vaccination programs will be mandated, even if they lack appropriateness and safety.
Every disease has a single cause.
Find the offending agent and chemically annihilate it. The resemblance to anti-missile warfare is striking. The allopathic medicine paradigm, however, is cracking due to social change. While it works for acute diseases, e.g., infections, it does poorly in managing chronic diseases that have no single cause and involve psychosocial and ecological forces. With the aging of baby boomers, the incidence of chronic disease in our society will accelerate, leading to a demand for a new treatment model, one which closely parallels the health care practices and philosophy of the modern chiropractic physician.