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Tag Archives: medicine
Being Mortal
I’ve just finished reading Being Mortal: What Matters in the End by Dr. Atul Gawande. I had read his previous Complications about life as a surgeon several years ago, greatly impressed. Both books have been highly praised, with the present … Continue reading
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Tagged Atul Gawande, Being Mortal, books, death, doctors, Health, medicine, mortality, Tolstoy, writing
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Medicine’s Desertion of the Elderly
“There’s no escaping the tragedy of life, which is that we are all aging from the day we are born,” writes Dr. Atul Gawande in his latest book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Accordingly, I’ve reached … Continue reading
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Tagged Atul Gawande, elderly, geriatrician, geriatricians, geriatrics, health care, medicine, morbidity, mortality
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A Court decision with deadly consequences
We should all be concerned about Thursday’s 2-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd District that the FDA needn’t consider the banning of antibiotics in healthy food producing animals. Given the growing menace of antibiotic resistant … Continue reading
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Tagged animal prduction, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, factory farming, Health, medicine
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Meditation Goes Mainstream: Western Medicine says Yes
It’s just me in the sunroom before breakfast, sprawled out on my yoga mat, doing meditation for 15 or 20 minutes. A series of deep breaths and letting my limbs go slack, a visualizing of a good moment. The hard … Continue reading
The Fountain of Youth: We are all Ponce de Leon
As a 12-year old Florida school boy, I was introduced early to the 16th century Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon, whom legend says came to Florida in quest of the Fountain of Youth. Drink or bathe in its waters and … Continue reading
