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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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The root challenge is that physicians, leader of health and wellness, have largely grown unaware and apathetic of the important role self-...
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My Breakfat “physician heal thyself”, someone once said! I agree! I found some evidence suggesting healthier physician means hea... -
In Taiwan, most seniors volunteer. They have successfully built a culture of voluntarism. They incentivized their seniors to volunteer at...
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Remission of type 2 diabetes is a practical diet for primary care. He jumped out of his chair and said “take my picture!” My patient came...
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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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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... -
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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My son asked me how do I know I am OK? This is my answer: “Thanks for asking for my perspectives. It is just one perspective. At leas...
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I remember starting to work ER 31 years ago being younger than most staff. Some nurses I now work with were once my pediatric patients. ...
“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”.