ON ALL THINGS RELATED TO HEALTH AND THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Do you want to learn about the forces that shape our healthcare system? Would you like to be able to make more informed choices about your health? Do you want to become healthier and happier? Read on and join the conversation!
3/10/13 – Research shows numerous benefits to meditation: it reduces stress, increases positive emotion, and even treats acute pain. Commonly, meditation involves focusing on one’s breathing as a way to anchor one’s…Read More
2/17/13 – “Facts that challenge basic assumptions—and thereby threaten people’s livelihood and self-esteem—are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.” —Daniel Kahneman There are numerous cognitive biases that threaten to…Read More
4/17/11 – I have a small cohort of patients who suffer chronic pain so intense and unremitting it prevents them from living normally. They often don’t work, shop, go to restaurants or…Read More