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The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing. You try to figure out what matters to you, and then you keep figuring it
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
His 2015 TED talk, “What Really Matters at the End of Life,” was among the top 15 most viewed TED talks of 2015.
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
buttress the skills of expert professionals. And by remaining swift and usable and resolutely modest,
Atul Gawande • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
You’d be wise to spend only about $10 of your budget on medical care and spend more on improving social and environmental factors such as substandard housing, job stress, poverty, discrimination, and dangerous neighborhoods — what experts often call the “social determinants of health.” When we think about what really shapes our health, medical care
... See moreRishi Manchanda • The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source (Kindle Single) (TED Books)
WICOS problem: Who Is the Captain Of the Ship? The nephrologists disagreed with the ICU doctors, who disagreed with the endocrinologists, who disagreed with the oncologists, who disagreed with the gastroenterologists. I felt the responsibility of my care: during bouts of consciousness, I typed out the sequential details of my current illness and, w
... See morePaul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
California, for instance, recently launched a Health in All Policies initiative to factor health into a wide swath of state decisions.
Rishi Manchanda • The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source (Kindle Single) (TED Books)
Jay Parkinson • Toward a New Definition of Primary Care: Primary care 3.0
from David M. Lawrence, former chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals: