This month’s conversation about “healthy” will continue, but we wanted to look back over some of the perspectives and comments so far, to try and get a better sense of the different things this word can mean to each of us, as well as… Continue…
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This month’s conversation about “healthy” is coming to a close. We wanted to look back over some of the perspectives and comments, to try and get a better sense of the different things this word can mean to each of us, as well as… Continue…
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Being healthy is a gift. Most people don’t know how good they have it until they are unhealthy and get sick. Whether it’s the common cold
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When it comes to cancer patients, the word Healthy is a charged word, much like survivorship. I am not sure if cancer patients ever…
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When I was younger, 9 or so, my mother always made me eat my broccoli – whose mother didn’t, really. “Be sure to eat…
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“Healthy” does not necessarily mean absence of disease. During a home visit with medical students I recently saw a patient who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 11….
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Is ‘healthy’ the absence of illness or is it something else? A number of years ago, another healthcare organization created an entire communications strategy (that informed their entire corporate strategy) around a single word: thrive…
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It’s a curious thing, feeling sick and watching those around you, who are healthy, trying to understand and empathize. Just about everyone has felt sick at some time, in some way. But we all seem to have a built-in eraser that makes it impossible…
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To me, healthy is about both body & mind. A cancer free body is a starting point, and it is quickly followed by a mind…
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Everyone strives to be healthy. But, when one sits back to think about what that means, how can one gauge it? In its simplest form,…
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After surgery to remove a softball sized mass from around one of my ovaries, I learned that I had ovarian cancer. The surgeons’ skilled eyes …
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The National Institute of Health was the first to define “health disparities”: Health disparities are differences…
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Healthy is a relative word. For those who have battled cancer and have won life is never really the same anymore. When you had cancer…
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Perhaps like many people, worrying about my health is something I do quite a lot. Also like many others, my worry isn’t enough…
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