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...each morning after surgery, Sandy had one consistent message for me: "I gotta get back home." This was a motivated patient with a goal - home. I had started to tell him about rehab - the great majority of our hip fracture patients get a week or so of intensive physical therapy as soon as they are medically stable - but Sandy would have nothing to do with it. "Please don't let them put me in the warehouse - I'm fine, doc - just need to get back to my own bed, feed the cat, catch up on the papers." I didn...
Five years ago, Dr. Alice Domar, a successful psychologist in Boston, had what she describes as an "ah-ha experience." A new patient, whom she refers to as "Kim," came in for an evaluation. Kim seemed to have everything - a happy marriage, four well-adjusted kids, a well-to-do lifestyle, good health and a trim figure. Admits Domar, "As she was telling me her story, I was listening to her thinking, what the hell is she doing seeing me?" It turns out that Kim was distressed by the messiness in her house. She told Domar, "Every time I open...
...doctor’s office at a time,” Conway said. “It’s going to require coordination from everybody, from the people at health care companies to the ambulance driver. The community will be coming together in the name of the patient...
...said that for physicians and patient families alike, it is difficult to “show restraint” in choosing care options even when the chances of saving a patient’s life...
...events and away from their abstracted, spectator sport status. Maybe canteens in the meat- and potato-addicted states will take a while to catch on, but that should only further motivate this effort. When statistics consistently show that lifestyle and diet changes are more effective than any medicine, a patient should be happy with a prescription for a 30-minute run and cardamom roasted cauliflower with his statin any day. It’s a marriage worth fighting for.—Columnist Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached at cooper3@fas.harvard.edu...