Tenet 2: Health 3.0 is both personal and non-personal. In my last post I introduced the first tenet of Health 3.0: uniqueness. Let’s continue with the next tenet: the importance of both the personal and non-personal in Health 3.0. This may be the hardest tenet for me to explain, but here goes… [...]
The Tenets of Health 3.0. In a previous post, I introduced a framework for the future of medicine called Health 3.0. I distinguish it from Health 1.0 — where we’ve been in medicine — and Health 2.0 — where I believe we’re at now. There are different ways to practice Health 3.0. But what exactly is it? I will [...]
Health 3.0: Where Medicine Needs to Go. The rip-off Have you or any of your loved ones experienced our health care system lately? If so, how was that experience for you? Were you pleased with your care? Were you able to access the system easily? Did it treat you with dignity, [...]
Exile of Eros: The Real Crisis in Medicine. So much has been said about healthcare reform in America. Much of it is political. Anything as big and complex as our healthcare system is subject to our particular worldviews. But we’ve been fooled. We’ve been misled about what the crisis in medicine [...]
Mom and Medicine: What Worries this MD. Everyone’s life is a unique, evolving story. This is mine. On April 15, 2016, my mother had a sudden rupture of a brain aneurysm. Prior to this she had never had any warning symptoms and had never been hospitalized. In about one hour she went from [...]
After reading Nassim Taleb's book Antifragile, I realized how crucial it is to apply this to medicine. So I wrote about it here. This is large enough to become its own tenet and a major addendum to our original paper, Unique Self and the Future of Medicine.
I've written a new e-book on what you don't know about heartburn. Members of our Conscious Medicine Wellness Program can download it here.
Can we unlock the door to good nutrition and health through the pursuit of pleasure? Find out through this presentation, which is available for download by clicking here.
Here at Conscious Medicine, we've been busy outlining a renewed framework for the future of health and wellness. Available for download is our white paper, Unique Self and the Future of Medicine. We hope you enjoy reading it; at stake is no less than the future of how we care for ourselves and each other.
In my last post I talked about motivation, and how finicky it can be when we rely on it to modify our habits. This is the motivation that naturally waxes and wanes, as BJ Fogg describes it. It can be fleeting, like waves rising and falling in an ocean. You can surf this motivation wave as [...]