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Why you shouldn’t use a incentive spirometer after surgery and what to do instead.
Thats an incentive spirometer. It’s meant to encourage patients bedridden to fill the lungs fully with air periodically to prevent atelect...
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I am grateful for the gifts of each moment. Our conversations are such gifts. While we are here for a while and will eventually go; I ...
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https://youtu.be/uEW3rgWNFL0 Mr. Goenka believes vipassana is answer to today’s human condition; I totally agree. In my opinion at the ...
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Dear patient, It is with gratitude for your trust in me as your physician that I share the following personal perspectives with you. ...
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“You are eating the same way and have no plans to quit smoking; I am confused as to why you are requesting yet another cholesterol test?” ...
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When I carry the mega delusion of immortality, I am helplessly tossed between cravings and fears. I think participation in the end of life ...
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I am grateful for my life and my life as a family physician. I tell my patients happiness are transient moments and so are sadness. T...
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Obesity and diabetes epidemics did not exist prior to the invention of the automobile. Personally I am not going to horse and buggies ( tho...
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Finished day 1 of Mini Vipassana; will meet again Tuesday 8-9. I am aware of a need to commit a time to meditate and started a “Mini Vi...
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Whether I am in my office or in the emergency department, patient motivated by their sufferings, makes great efforts to present with honesty...
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I believe nutrition, physical and mindfulness training are three self-management perspectives requiring perhaps even more urgent public a...
“Do you want to suffer”?
“Yes you are and so am I”.
“Yes you are and so am I”.
“That’s your mind talking and your body love it. Is your mind more important than your body”?
“Do you know when you will die”? “Do you want to suffer till you die”?
“Your kidney is actually fine for now and you don’t yet have cancer; I just want you to see what might happen if you continue to eat the way your eating right now.”
“I think your body doesn’t like how it’s being treated and is speaking to your mind; and pain is the language of the body. Would you like me to interpret”?
“Would you like me to help you to tell you body to shut up”?
“Because no one else suffers more than me when I am miserable”.