The One Aspect of Healing Our Healthcare System Gets Wrong
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…
A Patient’s View: Athlete Scores Against Chronic Pain
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…
Do You Know How Healing Works?
Most of what we think produces health actually does not. But there is an inherent healing capacity within us all that, when properly released, can produce remarkable recovery, health, and…
The Need For a New Understanding of Healing
Most of the treatments we think produce healing do not work when exposed to rigorous scientific scrutiny. Yet people often get better. Why? How? How Healing Works argues that the vast…
Healing Tool Series: Moving Beyond Medications
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…
Ask Dr. Jonas: A New Prescription for Medical Education
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.…
A Patient’s View – 5 Things New Moms Need to Know about Chronic Low Back Pain
Yes, children come with heavy gear to tote, but maintaining your health and wellbeing must be a priority. Drs. Jonas and Fricton share their tips for baby-toting parents.
Ask Dr. Jonas – What is Integrative Health?
What is “integrative health”? As a physician who practices integrative health, I see my patients as whole people—within families, neighborhoods and communities. They work in partnership with me to determine…
Healing Tool Series: CAM-Cancer Summaries
“Healing Tools" are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients use integrative health approaches to improve health and wellbeing. CAM-Cancer Summaries: Evidence-based information about the effectiveness and…
Book as a Speaker
For more than 30 years, Dr. Wayne Jonas has studied the science of healing. Whether in the lab at NIH, in the field as an Army physician, or in practice…