How Our Government Can Improve Our Healthcare System
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…
Healing Tool Series: Personalized Care Planning for Medically Complex Patients in Primary Care
Journal article about using personalized care plan to improve care for medically complex, high-need patients. “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients use integrative…
The Proven Power of Alternative Medicine and its Ability to Heal
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,…
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…
Healing Tools Series: Managing Behavioral Health Issues in Primary Care: Six Five-Minute Tools
Practical five-minute strategies for family physicians to support patients with depression, anxiety and other behavioral health issues “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients…
Healing Tool Series: HeartMath® emWave® Training System
A stress management training system that monitors stress by measuring a person’s heart rate variability and provides biofeedback to increase this heart rate variability, which correlates with the relaxation response…
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…
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: Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis 7-Step Recovery Program
A program of diet, supplements and lifestyle changes integrated with conventional medicine to help people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) live longer, better and healthier lives “Healing Tools” summaries are a…
Healing Tool Series: Integrating Self-Management Training to Prevent or Relieve Chronic Pain and Addiction
Online training program and massive open online course (MOOC; free or with a CEU fee) for patients and providers to integrate self-management with evidence-based treatment in transformative chronic pain care…