Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
~ Hippocrates
Somehow I feel a sense of renewed hope and peace as 2022 closes with a whimper.
Times are changing. The past year continued to present crises and opportunities, especially in healthcare.
There has been a lot of chaos, and suffering flickered with glimmers of hope.
Although I dropped a lot of balls when it came to maintaining friendships, prioritizing our family under the circumstances is unlikely to be something I regret.
2022 highlight
The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.
~ Hippocrates
The birth of our first grandchild was the highlight for us this year.
Our daughter, who had good reason not to comply with an experimental public health treatment, was determined to stay out of the hospital and succeeded.
We learned that childbirth need not always be a "medical" emergency.
Our granddaughter has not needed medical attention (other than midwife care and well-baby visits) or medication in the first eight months of her life. For that, we are grateful.
Leaving a legacy of hope
Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Becoming a grandparent challenges one to live each day with the intent to leave a legacy of hope for future generations.
We’ve embraced our role by becoming even more committed to being good role models.
A noteworthy change for a few of us has been eliminating even the occasional social alcoholic drink or minimizing it for others.
Treat the person, not the disease
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
~ William Osler
People are waking up to the fact that the medical industry focuses on scaling and creating expensive patentable solutions that require a large market to quickly recoup costs and increase profit sustainably.
A solution needs a problem. The medical system today ignores prevention for the most part and prioritizes the more lucrative disease management.
With better access to reliable data, the paternalistic standard of care that has doctors use a one-size-fits-all medical approach will eventually be replaced with personalized medicine that treats patients based on their constitutional types, cooperatively.
Sadly, it had to become ugly for things to change. But I see glimmers of hope everywhere.
Wishing you all the health, strength and fortitude to overcome the fear that increases dependence and vulnerability.
P.S. I may be changing the weekday I post future blogs. Thank you all for your continued interest.
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