“Medical training is about learning to defy death, when you can’t defy it, deny it, or avoid it.” Dr. Christopher Kerr, MD, found comfort in the avoidance of death until his career path inevitably led him to hospice. As a hospice doctor, he cares for those at the end of life. He has found that …Read More
Category: Physician
Call for “Stories in Medicine”
The practice of medicine struggles with the often conflicting perspectives of healing, marketing, and money. How can we explore the stories in medicine? The frame of storytelling offered by Annette Simmons in The Story Factor describes six types of stories of influence: who am I, why am I here, vision, teaching, values, and elephant in the …Read More
Eat Nutrient Dense Foods ~ Dr. Joel Fuhrman
“Clearly, it is difficult to eat healthfully in our crazy world, where it seems that everyone else is on a mission to commit suicide with food.” ― Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss Fuhrman’s Equation for Health: H = N / C Health Expectancy = Nutrients / …Read More
Medicine Goes Virtual ~ Book a Session
From the comfort of your home, you log in, type in your complaint, and then wait in the virtual waiting room. The doctor connects with video conferencing. As long as the problem can be diagnosed online, instructions are given, and prescriptions are sent to your local pharmacy. Sometimes a referral is needed for an “in-person” …Read More
Online Healing Session ~ Everything is Energy
Hello, I’m Dr. Joel Ying. Welcome to this online healing session. In this process of working together, we are connected by video conferencing or by telephone. I understand that not everyone can come to my office, so this process allows us to connect remotely. We are both in a quiet safe space, free from distractions. …Read More
Summer is here! Remember to hydrate.
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy.” ~ Regina Brett The longest day of the year, Summer Solstice, was June 21st. It’s officially summer! The beach is beautiful here in Florida. The ocean waves crash into the shore with an endless rhythm, washing away any heavy thoughts. On the horizon, the blue of …Read More
Rafael Campo, Physician-Poet
Marvelous, the body’s workmanship, how perfect is its service to the soul it shelters, each soft hair along the shin enshrining touch, this way we’re made to need each other’s care. ~ Rafael Campo, Physician-Poet Today Rafael Campo is a primary-care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a professor at Harvard Medical School, and …Read More
Narrative Medicine ~ Rita Charon
Narrative Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. ~ Dr. Rita Charon With the age of science and objectivity applied to modern medicine, little space is left for empathy and emotions. “Just the facts” has become the litany that creates a …Read More
Blue Zones of Longevity
What is the secret to a long and healthy life? In 1513, Ponce de Leon landed in Florida searching for the Fountain of Youth, scientists are still looking for the secret today. In 2004, two scientists studying longevity circled areas on the map in blue and published their research. Based on population studies, they looked …Read More
#21: The Story of HIV (Dr. Larry Friedman)
Time stood still. Even the air in the room refused to move, when Dr. Larry Friedman launched into a teaching story. As a resident doctor-in-training, we rotate through many different areas of medicine. Looking back at memorable moments during that time, the teachers that captivated me the most were the ones that told stories. In …Read More