Abstract
“Historical power inequities across professions”—this heavily laden phrase is the handiwork of a multidisciplinary set of practitioners who were convened by the Fetzer Institute in 1994 to guide communities of providers toward what they would call “relationship-centered care.”1 The 5 words are declared as the second of 2 bullets in a “knowledge” box in a chart displaying knowledge, skills, and values the group associated with optimal practitioner-to-practitioner relationships (Table). I view that charge as a pole star for navigating inter-guild dealings. Empathy must guide the acquisition of such knowledge. How many practitioners of any stripe can say they've gone to school on the historic relationship to power for, for instance, nurses, chiropractors, traditional healers, medical doctors, and practitioners of East Asian medicine? Yet there sits that seemingly fathomable charge, glowing like a watery beacon, a distant goal in the boggy depths of interguild relationships.
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