Whites Coats, White Robes

Christianity and Western (allopathic) medicine are deeply appealing for the same reason: They promise simple solutions. Accept Christ as your savior and you will be helped through this life and accepted into heaven. Take this bread and eat it, for this is my Body...Take this pill and eat it so that you will be cured, perhaps of all your problems, ever. The cleanness of these systems is attractive; it whispers freedom from curses and goblins and reincarnation, headaches and sorrow and injuries. It calls like a crisp bed inviting rest. I fear, however, that I am messy, and that, to live and heal, I need to sing praises to multiple gods for multiple lifetimes, and to boil up huge pots of strange-smelling herbs.