...I learned a Slow Medicine lesson: how individual medicin… - Victoria Sweet

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...I learned a Slow Medicine lesson: how individual medicine was. It wasn't true that one size fits all, that everyone or no one should have that treatment or this pill. Rather, the right answer had to do with style, with who you were, who the patient was.

Victoria Sweet

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Victoria Sweet is an American physician, medical historian and author who promotes the practice of slow medicine.

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...when you're on your pilgrimage, you don't even need to know where you're going. You just have to know when you're off your path.

We don't need to remake our health-care system or rebuild it from the ground up. We don't need to do very much. It's pretty simple, quite attainable. Just an added perspective and a change of pace.

Every time a new drug comes out, I read what the side effects are and how many people really get better, and I add in the side effects and the adverse reactions. When you do that, and subtract out the placebo effect, not many new medications make a difference.

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