Epidurals, spinal anesthesia, and analgesics work well against labor pains. However, they do have some side effects including nausea and vomiting as well as increasing the chance that some assisted birth…
It’s clear that the US healthcare system needs changing. The costs are too high and the results too poor. The system also needs changing because our patients have changed. What…
The healing process is understood and applied in many traditions and by wise physicians today but has been obscured by modern medicine’s obsession with external agents, such as pills, procedures,…
When I began practice as a young doctor, I thought that the treatments I gave to patients were the primary reason they got well. But after almost 40 years of…
How Healing Works is radically and disruptively brilliant. Dr. Wayne Jonas has led the rigorous scientific research and synthesized the discoveries that explain our innate capacity to heal and what…
Exercise, meditation and mindfulness, yoga and an anti-inflammatory diet lead to a nearly pain-free life Like many teenagers, John Slay wanted to be a professional athlete. As a baseball, basketball…
Now that you and the patient have a HOPE list, the hard work begins. It’s critical to connect the patient’s priorities and health goals to medical advice, and offer support…
A one-page pocket guide for primary care physicians highlighting five steps to manage chronic pain without drugs “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and…
How would you describe your own medical education? I studied medicine in the late ’70s to the early ’80s and received the typical American mainstream medical education of the time.…
