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Is There a Holy Grail of Healing?

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

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You Know, I'm Not Well Resourced Right Now

When we're ill, when we're maybe diagnosed with a disease that could kill us, i think there's a natural thing inside where we want to go to an m d. But most of the time, if you're giving all your power away to a doctor and saying, decide for me, you are at the mercy of the statistic. In the world of statistics, we would say you are one n of one. You are one unique individual. And the way that we make medical decisions is based not on unique individuals, but on a groups of people who fall into the mean.

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