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From "Health Care" to Healthful Caring
The US spends 99 cents of its health care dollar on end-stage treatment and hardly a penny on prevention; as a result we're facing an unprecedented burden of chronic disease that claims lives and threatens our economic future. Some of the best minds in medicine are now working to put proactive prevention at the center of American medicine.
Vol. 9, No. 4. Winter, 2008
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Finding Balance: A New Book Extends A Helping Hand for Hurt, Harried Healers
In his new book, Finding Balance in a Medical Life, Dr. Lee Lipsenthal contends that doctors bring about much of their own unhappiness through controlling, perfectionistic and workaholic attitudes. Drawing from a wide range of psychological practices and spiritual traditions, Dr. Lipsenthal provides insights and practical tools to help fellow physicians find joy and fulfillment in their personal and professional lives.
Vol. 9, No. 2. Summer, 2008
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Defining Your Values is Key To Building a Healthy Practice
Now more than ever, the nation needs health care systems that focus on prevention. Equally pressing is the need to restore economic viability to primary care and rebuild physician-patient relationships. The changes will only come when doctors re-define their professional values and restructure their practices accordingly. Dr. Elson Haas, a holistic pioneer with more than 30 years' experience, reflects on the values underlying his thriving practice.
Vol. 8, No. 4. Winter, 2007
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Roots of Health Begin in the Soil
Healthy soil is the foundation of healthy food, which is the foundation of healthy humans, says Michael Abelman, a veteran organic farmer who believes farming has a lot more in common with medical practice than most people realize.
Vol. 8, No. 4. Winter, 2007
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"Bad Cholesterol:" Good Marketing, But Is It Good Medicine?
The cholesterol model of heart disease, which labels LDL as “bad” and HDL as “good,” has certainly helped drug companies sell a lot of statin medications. But has it really reduced the impact of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in this country? “Not really,” says Dr. Cleaves Bennett, one of the nation’s leading experts on hypertension, kidney disease and preventive medicine.
Vol. 8, No. 3. Fall, 2007
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Terma Foundation: Saving Lives in Tibet's Far Reaches
Internist Nancy Harris, MD, has learned a lot over her 15 years of providing holistic primary care services in remote regions of Tibet. Among the lessons, the power of nutrition to transform lives, and the power of human dignity to transcend adversity.
Online Feature. Winter, 2005
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Vitamin Angel Alliance: Saving Lives Through Better Nutrition
For the past decade, the Vitamin Angel Alliance has been bringing vitamins and other nutritional supplements to hungry, displaced families facing the ravages of war, natural disaster and merciless poverty.
Vol. 6, No. 4. Winter, 2005
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Holism in Action: Natural Medicine Responds to Disaster
From battlefield hospitals in Iraq, to flood survivor relief centers in Sri Lanka and New Orleans, holistic physicians are showing that natural medicine can play a key role in front-line emergency medicine. Inspiring portraits of holism in action.
Vol. 6, No. 4. Winter, 2005
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The Physician Personality: Confronting Our Perfectionism and Social Isolation
Many of the personality traits and behaviors that help doctors survive the rigors of their training and the stresses of their practices also make it very difficult for doctors to relate to their patients, colleagues and loved ones.
Vol. 6, No. 3. Fall, 2005
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The Physician Personality: Overcoming "Overcare" and Perfectionism
Perfectionism, competitiveness, and a sometimes overwhelming desire to do good are very common personality traits among people drawn to a career in medicine. Unfortunately, these very traits can wreak havoc in physicians' personal and professional lives. Beneath the drive to know everything and always make the right treatment decisions is often a deep insecurity. Dr. Lee Lipsenthal explores the hidden fears underneath the mask of medical authority.
Vol. 5, No. 4. Winter, 2004
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Restoring the Sacred to Surgery
To a surgeon, it may be just another case. But to the patient, an operation---any operation, even a "minor" one---can be a profound and frightening experience, one that requires a deep level of trust. Judith Petry, MD, describes how her own experience under the knife opened her eyes to the need for greater reverence and respect in the operating room.
Vol. 4, No. 3. July, 2003
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Ending the War: Transforming Medicine's Military Mindset
For much of its history, conventional allopathic medicine has used the language of warfare to describe its methods and practices. Adversarial thinking is deeply ingrained in medical culture. Gladys McGarey, MD, one of the pioneers of the holistic medicine movement, believes it is high time to change that.
Vol. 4, No. 2. April, 2003
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Breaking the Habit of Making Things Worse
Pain is a fact of life. Suffering is all of what we add on to the pain: all of the explanations, blame, worry, and fear. In most cases, all these added-on emotions and thoughts do little to help us actually work with painful situations.
Vol. 2, No. 2. April 15, 2001
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On Death, Dying, Doctors and Denial
No matter how good a doctor is, all of his or her patients will die---someday. Even the doctor, too, is a mere mortal. But medicine has had a very hard time reckoning with this basic fact of life. According to Leslie Blackhall, MD, a geriatric and palliative care specialist, medicine's denial of death is a major contributor to health care costs.
Vol. 2, No. 2. April 15, 2001
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Evidence-Based Music: Folk Bests Jazz as Treatment of Choice
In an April Fool's Day parody, David Reilly, MD, a Scottish physician best known for his landmark studies of homeopathy, applies the standards of evidence-based medicine to determine which kind of music is "the most effective."
Vol. 2, No. 2. April 15, 2001
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TCM Practitioners Ponder Future of Integration
The emergence of holistic health care, and particularly Oriental medicine, into the medical mainstream may have befuddled many conventionally trained physicians. It has been equally confusing on the other side of the fence. Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, who often find themselves practicing in collaboration with MDs, voice their experiences and concerns.
Vol. 1, No. 2. December 15, 2000
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Alternative Medicine Looks at the Bottom Line
Holistic medicine is all about humanity and compassion, but one cannot ignore the economic issues raised by the emergence of holistic approaches into mainstream medicine. Practitioners, patients and policy makers are struggling to figure out how natural medicine fits, and who will ultimately pay for it.
Vol. 1, No. 2. December 15, 2000
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Revitalizing Your Office With Feng Shui
Many medical clinics are drab, joyless environments. But they don't have to be this way. Dr. Barry Sultanoff shows how the principles of Feng Shui, the Chinese art of environmental design, can be easily applied to health care settings, transforming them from sterile and depressing treatment rooms to energized healing spaces.
Vol. 1, No. 1. October 15, 2000
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