Any practitioner of any kind of medicine - traditional, energy, etc. - is a channel in service to others through the Universe. Human experience currently dictates that this ability be applied only through academic structures because the other part - organic medical intuition - is invalid. Animals know the best way forward is to soften the academic part and sharpen the intuitive part.  “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller