How You Eat is as Important as What You Eat During COVID-19
Being healthy during a pandemic is more than about making good food choices. Sure, buying or ordering the right food during this unique crisis is an important element to maintaining…
Widen Your Circle of Support to Be a Better Caregiver
You are a social being. Your relationships with others and your role within your community provide a sense of belonging, care, and support. And right now, when most of us…
A Better Way to Manage Chronic Diseases: In-Person and Virtual Group Visits
Healthy choices and behavior like better nutrition, exercise, stress management and good sleep help patients with chronic diseases feel and live better. But busy physicians rarely have time to provide…
Healing Patients in this Time of Loneliness and Social Isolation
Social distancing is essential in helping flatten the COVID-19 curve but it’s also having a devastating effect on our patients' physical, mental and spiritual health. Nearly half of American adults…
Maximize Resistance and Resilience with These Re-Entry Plan Questions
As businesses begin to re-open and government officials lessen restrictions, you will have to make many choices every day about how to resume work and social relationships in the ‘new…
How Hospitals Can Help Patients Heal by Reducing Noise
While I am most comfortable being the doctor in the patient-doctor encounter, I recently had the tables turned during a three-day stay at the hospital while recovering from a burst…
Five Steps to Avoid Burnout at Work
I was recently interviewed by PR News about how PR pros and agencies cope with COVID-19 stress. In today's fast-paced society the concept of coping with stress in the workplace…
Stability Through Change: The Misconception of Resilience
A pandemic wouldn't typically be a great reason for an English lesson but it is useful when it comes to defining the strength and resolve so many in our country,…
Are You an Empowered Patient?
Written by Jenny Leyh—mother, freelance writer, cancer survivor, and integrative health advocate living in Haddon Heights, New Jersey Confidence in your medical care is critical to your health. Ideally, you…
10 More Ways Physicians Can Leverage Placebo Potential
Last week our team was proud to publish a blog post from the perspective of physicians, offering an inside look at how medical providers harness the power of placebo and…