Sublime

Julie, fifty-two years old and newly retired, was attending her first retreat with me. After decades of prioritizing career and family, she was feeling fatigued,

On me demande souvent pourquoi, à quatre-vingt-cinq ans, je continue à travailler. L’article numéro quatre-vingt-cinq (pure coïncidence) commence par cette simple déclaration : Mon travail avec les patients enrichit ma vie, en ce qu’il donne un sens à la vie. On entend rarement les praticiens que nous sommes en déplorer le manque. Le fondement de n

Dr. Michael Gelb is a renowned New York dentist who specializes in treating snoring, sleep apnea, anxiety, and other breathing-related problems.

our medical system, for all its extraordinary capabilities, is ill-equipped to handle the steep rise in this kind of chronic illness. That system is great at providing acute care and terrible at managing the complexities of long-term care.

In 1982 Larry Dossey, an American physician, coined the term “time-sickness” to describe the obsessive belief that “time is getting away, that there isn’t enough of it, and that you must pedal faster and faster to keep up.”

There is something between living and dying we are after, and it has to do with biological success—being able to perform basic human tasks without medical assistance—and feeling good as a holistic being.)

nearly half of a primary care physician’s time is spent on documentation and follow-up, outside the examination room without the patient present.