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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Circling around all of this continues to be a more fundamental shift of how people are paying attention to biology and their own health.
While patient-directed care broadly is an increasingly consensus trend (borne out of the rise of the quantified self of yesterday and a large number of growing podcasters/authors today) the... See more
She should have exercised more!) and then denies proper access and care because they have a “lifestyle disease.” (Disgusting phrase.) This shows up around lung cancer (if you get a lung-cancer
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Even for primary care physicians, who are meant to be the main portal for patients seeking health care, making a full investment in collecting a patient’s history and assessing current lifestyle can be difficult.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
The National Produce Prescription Collaborative defines a produce prescription program as “a medical treatment or preventative service for patients who are eligible due to a diet-related health risk or condition, food insecurity or other documented challenges in access to nutritious foods, and are referred by a health care provider or health
... See moreJane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
Thinking about disease as a complex individualized consequence of genes and infections and stress and our immune systems means living with uncertainty instead of diagnostic clarity. The twentieth century was, as Sontag put it, “an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.” The twenty-first century will be an era in
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