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The pace and path to mindfulness

The pace and path to mindfulness

by Jeremy Topin | May 18, 2018 | Balance, Change, Medicine, Transformation

Fast I eat. Fast. Often, I consume the food I place on my plate before I even make it to the kitchen table. It’s as if I grew up during times of famine, desperate for each and every morsel. On the rare night my family has dinner together, I am usually finishing just...
“Doctor…She wants a chance. She wants to live!”

“Doctor…She wants a chance. She wants to live!”

by Jeremy Topin | Aug 18, 2017 | End of life, Medical Education, Medicine

“Doctor…She wants a chance. She wants to live!” How often have I heard those words? Or some version of them? The location of the conversations varies. I might be standing outside the curtain of an emergency room bay or sitting on a worn chair inside a cramped waiting...

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