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Whole-Person Care as the Standard of Care
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Whole Person Cancer Care & Cardio-Oncology Webinar
JoinDr Dan Lenihan (Saint Francis Healthcare System, US), Dr Joe Carver (University of Pennsylvania, US) and Dr Wayne Jonas (President of Healing Works Foundation) as they examine the intersection of cardio-oncology and integrative care. This expert-led webinar highlights whole-person approaches to cancer care, addressing cardiovascular risk and survivorship.
Beyond pills and procedures: The healing power of relationships
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Whole health for our veterans, and our nation
You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Every year, as Veterans Day approaches, my thoughts invariably turn toward those who have served in the United States military and have returned from wars with physical, mental, and spiritual scars.
Whole-Person Cancer Care: A Transformative Vision for Oncology
Guest Editor’s Note: Advances in cancer treatments have led to an increase in survival rates, but the quality of life is often diminished during survivorship. Because modifiable personal behavior contributes to health-care outcomes, interventions that support healthy behaviors may improve health while decreasing health-care costs, even in oncology care. In this article, Drs.
Speak with your patients about cannabis
You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. As healers, we are most comfortable and confident when we can rely on the long-established armamentarium of countless medications created by the American pharmaceutical industry.
Virtual rehabilitation of central sensitization syndromes
Modern medicine often fails to effectively manage complex chronic conditions. Physicians are often constrained by tightly packed clinic schedules, leaving only brief windows of time for each patient encounter. While this setup may allow for basic diagnosis and treatment planning, there is scarcely enough time for comprehensive patient education, let alone providing the necessary support, guidance, and empowerment that complex patients need.
Science supports it and patients want it: Bringing whole-person care to cancer treatment
Patients, as the primary stakeholders in their own well-being, are increasingly showing a profound interest in holistic approaches to cancer care that extend beyond traditional medical treatments. Growing evidence supports this interest, showing that some whole-person and integrative approaches can improve quality of life and survival outcomes. Oncologists’ attitudes are shifting in the same direction, though with less urgency than our patients’.
Navigating hidden risks: Safeguarding patients from unchecked supplement use
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Desire for integrative therapies requires oncologists to go ‘beyond killing the tumor’
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Surveys show providers and patients increasingly endorse ‘whole-person’ integrative care
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The promising future of financing for whole-person primary care
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Industry Voices-The 4 'Es' of values-based healthcare
“Don’t pay for that,” my wife exhorts me as I consider ordering a bottle of premium wine during dinner. “You can buy that same wine for 10 times less at Costco. It’s not worth it.” I reconsider. Indeed, it will not be worth it if we are not enjoying it because of the cost. It does not have good value. Most business leaders think constantly about value and seek to never pay more for something than they need to, especially if it will not contribute to the company’s goals.
Saving the soul of primary care
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VIDEO: How to implement whole-person primary care
Source/Disclosures Source: Healio Interview Disclosures: Jonas reports no relevant financial disclosures. We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Implementing whole-person care is both achievable and beneficial for primary care practices, according to Wayne B. Jonas, MD, president of Healing Works Foundation.
‘A good start’: ACR guideline heralds increased use, recognition of integrative therapies
Source/Disclosures Disclosures: Calabrese reports consulting or speaking for Abbvie, ChemoCentryx, Galvani, Genentech, Gilead, GSK, Janssen, Novartis, Sanofi-Regeneron and UCB. Munoz reports consulting or speaking for Exagen, Quest Diagnostics, Scipher Medicine and UCB; Jonas and Smith report no relevant financial disclosures. We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com.
Achieving practice improvement with whole-person care
We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Most clinicians in primary care understand that the future of American medicine is already upon us. Old models of care are being squeezed out and new requirements imposed. One of the most sweeping changes in policy, practice and payments is to move us rapidly away from the fee-for-service toward value-based care.
How 'whole-person' integrative care can best address chronic pain
We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. As a family physician for more than 40 years, I have had countless patients come to me desperately hoping to alleviate their chronic pain. It is rarely their first time searching for relief, with many having already turned to opioids or alcohol — with devastating results. They are struggling, and they want answers from their doctors and care providers.
How whole-person care can make us better healers
My patient at a pain clinic on a military base in Virginia carried the deep wounds of war on his face. Not physical scars, but a sallow, slack complexion and a hollow-eyed look of exhaustion and defeat. A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, he had long been suffering from anxiety, depression, and other complications of PTSD, although his presenting complaint was back pain.
Listening to pain in our younger patients
As a family physician for more than 40 years, I have seen countless patients struggling to alleviate chronic pain, with far too many turning to self-destructive coping methods such as alcohol and opioids. Unfortunately, the struggle with chronic pain isn’t going away – and more alarming is the fact that those suffering from it are getting younger and younger.
Q&A: Proper supplement use starts with patient-provider discussions
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Our Patients Are Using More Supplements: Here’s How We Can Guide Them
Among the less-noted consequences of COVID-19, many Americans have become more health-conscious than ever and more aware of the value of self-care. A new national survey by The Harris Poll shows that since the pandemic, nearly 3 in 10 Americans have initiated or increased their use of supplements, bringing the percentage of daily supplement users to more than 75 percent of the adult population.
Promoting Healing With a Whole Health Model for Veterans
February 04, 2021 By Wayne Jonas, MD Having spent much of my 40-year medical career in the military, my patients who are veterans have taught me a crucial lesson: I rarely cure them of chronic disease. Instead, I must find a way to make them a partner in their own healing. This is especially true when treating veterans with complex health conditions. They require special attention and treatment approaches that provide relief both in the short term and healing for the rest of their lives.
A new model of care to return holism to family medicine
1. Engel GL. The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine. Science. 1977;196:129-136. 2. Schwartz MD, Durning S, Linzer M, et al. Changes in medical students’ views of internal medicine careers from 1990 to 2007. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:744-749. 3. Bronchetti ET, Christensen GS, Hoynes HW. Local food prices, SNAP purchasing power, and child health. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. June 2018. www.nber.org/papers/w24762?mc_cid=8c7211d34b&mc_eid=fbbc7df813.
Pain Management Lessons Learned from the VA’s Whole Health Model
The former lead examiner of the VA's COVER Commission talks about self-care as a focus on people − not pills and procedures − and how the agency's reduced-cost model can extend to private practice. A Provider Perspective Chronic pain is a major health problem in the United States and its prevalence has certainly not diminished during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Human Nasal Turbinate Tissues in Organ Culture as a Model for Human Cytomegalovirus Infection at the Mucosal Entry Site
Cellular Response to Infection Or Alfi, Ido From, Arkadi Yakirevitch, Michael Drendel, Michael Wolf, Karen Meir, Zichria Zakay-Rones, Yuval Nevo, Sharona Elgavish, Ophir Ilan, Yiska Weisblum, Shay Tayeb, Menachem Gross, Wayne Jonas, John Ives, Menachem Oberbaum, Amos Panet, Dana G. Wolf Felicia Goodrum, Editor DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01258-20 ABSTRACT The initial events of viral infection at the primary mucosal entry site following horizontal person-to-person transmission have remained ill defined.
80% of Americans intend to regularly practice self-care after COVID-19 pandemic
June 12, 2020 2 min read Source/Disclosures Source: Samueli Integrative Health Programs/The Harris Poll. Survey: COVID-19 spurs increase in self-care. https://drwaynejonas.com/covidsurvey/. Accessed June 12, 2020. Disclosures: Jonas is an employee of Samueli Integrative Health Programs. ADD TOPIC TO EMAIL ALERTS Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . We were unable to process your request.
Bridging the Gap Between Where the Quality Metric Ends and Real Life Begins
A few weeks ago, I was poring over the latest evidence-based guidelines for treating hypertension with one of our medical students, hoping it would enlighten us regarding how to craft our recommendations for a patient with persistent hypertension whom I had known for 15 years. On the surface, the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guidelines for treating hypertension seemed straightforward.
Refresh your practice
In this guest editorial, Wayne B. Jonas, MD, the executive director of Samueli Integrative Health Programs and a former director of the NIH’s Office of Alternative Medicine, discusses how to adapt your practice to a health care system that is quickly shifting away from the fee-for-service model and toward value-based care. He offers tips on billing in the new payment models, which require physicians to offer care to patients that extends beyond their immediate illness.
Self-care: What Patients Want vs. What Physicians Can Provide
The burden of chronic disease in the United States is enormous. Six out of every 10 adults suffer from a chronic illness, and four in 10 have two or more,(www.cdc.gov) according to the CDC. Relying only on the medical system to provide pills and procedures to try to treat these diseases is not enough. We cannot expect to stem the rising tide of chronic illness unless we can design medical practices to promote serious behavior change and self-care among patients.
How Doctors and Patients Communicate
Published on December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 • 0 Likes • 0 Comments Pat Salber, MD, MBAFollow Editor-in-Chief at The Doctor Weighs In - LinkedIn Top Voices in Healthcare 2017 & 2018 Much has been written about the doctor-patient relationship and how important good communication is in healing relationships. Yet there are so many things in today's practice of medicine that make it hard for doctors and patients to talk to each other.
The Importance of Self-Care in Chronic Illness Management
After 40 years as a practicing physician, I have concluded that the burden of treating chronic diseases has grown so enormous that more pills and procedures will never be enough to cure the ills of my patients. Over those years, I also came to realize that we as physicians are failing to take sufficient advantage of one of our most powerful available tools: the ability of our patients to practice self-care. Consider the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Optimal Healing Environments
Each person has inherent healing capacity. Through small changes in your daily life, you can increase your body’s ability to heal. You also may foster that same healing capacity in your own community, school and workplace. With the changes you make today, you can create an environment in your life, at home, at work and in your community that supports your natural healing potential. In other words, you can create your own Optimal Healing Environment.
New Legislation to Address Opioid Crisis – Samueli Institute Blog
A message from Wayne B. Jonas, MD Each day more than 50 people in the U.S. die from prescription pain relievers. When you add the deaths related to heroin, that number jumps to 80 per day.[i] Last week Congress passed legislation that hopes to reduce those figures. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), S. 524 was passed by the Senate in a nearly-unanimous (92-2) vote. Having been previously passed by the House, it was recently signed by President Barack Obama.
Finding the Cause of the Crises: Opioids, Pain, Suicide, Obesity, and Other “Epidemics”
Until we redesign our health care system to address our patients’ personal determinants of health, we will continue to inadequately address our multiple chronic disease crises.
Here's Why It's Important to Have Healthy Relationships
Your personal support system consists of a number of relationships. These include your family, friends, doctor, pastor, neighbors, coworkers, boss and many others. They can support you, or they can add to your stress and burdens. An optimal interpersonal environment is made up of more positive relationships than burdensome ones. Those that are healing in nature are loving, kind, trusting and benefit everyone involved. How to Develop Healing Relationships? We are social beings.
There Is More to the Healing Process Than You Think
Only about 15 to 20 percent of health-related outcomes are attributable to medical interventions. Nonmedical determinants have a great impact on health. The rest are related to health behaviors such as diet, physical activity, and smoking status, with the physical, social, and economic environment affecting a person’s ability to make healthy choices and access medical care. It’s important that non-healthy behaviors don’t become habits that negatively affect our wellbeing.
Restoring healing to the patient-provider conversation
This country continues to struggle with the issue of how to pay for health care. But regardless of the source of payment, primary care usually gets caught in the middle. Squeezed between volume and value, family physicians know all too well the gap that exists between what our patients need and what our training and health care system allow us to provide.This knowledge prompted me to change how I conduct my day-to-day office visits.
How to Activate Your Full Healing Potential
For thousands of years, medical treatments have been selected and passed down using clinical experiences as the best approach to truth. But could accumulated medical wisdom, both from ancient practices like acupuncture and modern drugs, be wrong? If so, how could we explain healing? Since 1991, I have had the good fortune to have jobs that allow me to explore these questions.
How Our Government Can Improve Our Healthcare System
It’s clear that the U.S. 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 we get mostly from healthcare was built on an acute care model to treat illness — usually applied at late stages. That approach no longer works for healing chronic disease we have today.
Cranial Electrical Stimulation: What Is It, and Should We Use It in Practice?
Cranial electrical stimulation (CES) is a form of brain stimulation that uses low levels of alternating current delivered via electrodes placed on the earlobes, occipital area, mastoid processes, or temples. Small studies of CES were done mostly after 1960 and concentrated on depression and insomnia, but this research took a back seat to that of pharmacologic agents, especially after the development of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
10 Ways to Live a Healthier Life
Living a healthy life is one of the key things you can do to stay or become well. How you eat, move, relax, and connect to others—all of these play major roles in healing your body, mind, and spirit. The choices you make today matter. And today’s choices determine the choices available to you tomorrow. The problem lies not in knowing what you should be doing, but rather in making these changes habitual and meaningful to you. Link the behavior to the meaning and joy in your life.
Top 8 Science Books to Read in 2018
Many people make New Year’s resolutions to get healthier, or to finally pursue a long-standing dream of theirs. But as we all well know, these resolutions usually begin to fade throughout the entirety of the year, until they eventually disappear altogether. What if your resolution was something simple, like educating yourself on something new? Spanning a variety of interesting and timely topics, the eight science books below will help you do just that.
How Healing Works: The Paradox of Healing - Signature Reads
Dr. Wayne Jonas is a widely published investigator, practicing family physician, and professor of medicine at Georgetown University and at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He is also a retired lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He now advises national and international organizations on ways to implement evidence-based healing practices in their medical systems. This article is excerpted from his book, How Healing Works.
Rethinking Healing
Most of what we think produces health actually does not. But there is an inherent healing capacity within us all that, when properly released, can produce remarkable recovery, health, and happiness. The healing process is understood and applied in many wisdom traditions and by wise physicians today, but has been obscured by modern medicine’s obsession with small parts, and the technologies, techniques, and chemicals that manipulate them.
Guest Commentary: More providers need to embrace integrative health approach
Our healthcare system is obsessed with delivering medical services, performing procedures and prescribing medications. It really needs to become obsessed with producing health.That is—or should be—the goal of healthcare. Yet, as a nation, the U.S., is not nearly as healthy as it should be or could be. We need a new approach—not only in healthcare but also in medical education.The University of California at Irvine is taking a big step in the right direction.
Vol. 4, No. suppl (GAHM)
Disclosure Information All GAHMJ authors complete the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest, and unless otherwise indicated, none related to the publication was reported.
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