Encore - Dr. Ron Epstein - Mindfulness in Healthcare: Can it help?
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Health Care Is in Crisis
There is a confluence of factors that are concerning, or at least the last 50 years. I ratessays from the early part of the twentieth century bemoaning excessive attention to the technical aspects of medicine and insufficient attention to the human aspects of medicine. The nefarious aspects, i think, are few. One is what i call the hegemony of coding,. which is neither the international classification of diseases now does 71 thousand different diagnostic categories, but not one of them is called suffering. Even with 71 thousand categories, they don't account for the uniqueness of each individual. And the second iss the corporaization of health care. So despite people's aspirations to provide high quality care, is just
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