Counter-Clockwise: Rethinking Health and Healthcare
Jerome Groopman "We doctors need you to help us think better. We need you to question us and to engage us.... It is really hard to be a doctor. But it is much harder to be a patient."
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman.
a group of more than 650 people in Oxford Ohio who in 1975 had been asked to respond to positive and negative statements about aging.
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman.
a group of more than 650 people in Oxford Ohio who in 1975 had been asked to respond to positive and negative statements about aging.
those who viewed aging as positive live seven and a half years longer
lowering blood pressure and controlling cholesterol live about four years longer
lowering blood pressure and controlling cholesterol live about four years longer
benefits of diet, exercise and not smoking about one to three years
Certainty is a cruel mindset which prevents us from seeing possibilities and closes us to the world around us.
We are either ill or healthy.
The medical world knows best: we ought to know more about ourselves that anyone else.
Health is a medical phenomenon.
Granting permission mindlessly: the triumph of form over content
Medical and personal uncertainty.
Diagnoses as starting point.
Mindfulness is not vigilance.
Attention to all the lessons we can take from an experience.
Small things as well as large ones