Welcome to The Joyful Path! I know it's been a while since I last posted here. Over three years, in fact. A lot's gone on . . . for me, and for you, I imagine. I'm now in law school part-time. That's a story for another day. I'm still [...]
Coronavirus Will Collapse -- and Transform -- our Health Care System. There's a wonderful blog I'm hooked on called "Postcards From the Fringe." It's written by a man named Tom Dyson who got divorced from his wife, disconnected from his kids, and went into severe depression. When his ex-wife decides to [...]
Awakin Houston One-Day Retreat. I am excited to be co-hosting a one-day retreat in Spring, Texas, called Awakin Houston: From Transaction to Trust. If you're local, I'm inviting you to join us. The people behind this event are who inspired me to start the "priceless pricing," pay-it-forward model in my practice. The event [...]
Introducing Systems Health. You can approach your health as a system of systems. MIT-trained systems engineer, Shiva Ayyadurai, PhD, and I show you how in the talk below which introduces the platform he created, Systems Health. It's a beautiful integration of East and West in our understanding of disease and health -- [...]
Microbiome Matters. I just did a talk all about the microbiome, why it matters, and how to care for it. Understanding the microbiome is critical not only for your gut health, but your health overall. You'll see why, in this talk. Enjoy!
Tenet 9: The driving force of Health 3.0 is love. What’s love got to do with it? Didn’t Tina Turner say it was just a second-hand emotion? Maybe, in fact, Tina Turner’s futile attempt to exile love from her heart points us to how similarly futile it is to exile love from [...]
Tenet 8: Health 3.0 affirms life, in the face of death. My older brother, a physician himself, had just gotten off the phone and collapsed to the ground in tears. It shocked me, because he doesn’t cry. So I collapsed to the ground with him. The phone call was about our mother. [...]
Tenet 7: Health 3.0 is medicine in evolution. Photo by Ashes Sitoula / Unsplash Health care evolves. We can see this happen from the outside — and on the inside. From the outside, medicine has been evolving since we humans started existing. Traditional Chinese medicine, the Siddha and Ayurveda medicine of India, the [...]
Medicine on Call. I had taken a hiatus at the beginning of the year. It's given me a chance to get more engaged in our parents' health, reflect on where I want my own practice to go, and plant some seeds together with some really special people who are committed to [...]
Enough. "You just felt this huge mass in your belly now?” That’s what I asked my father about six months ago. He called that morning to tell me he was feeling something hard in his belly, and it looked “asymmetric.” I drove over to my parents’ house and examined my dad’s abdomen. [...]