REVOLUTIONS BUBBLE OUT OF INJUSTICE. Social, political, economic, spiritual, and physical oppression drives people to rise up against violations of basic human rights. Working with Partners in Health this year, after the earthquake in Haiti, I learned from Dr. Paul Farmer that health is among the most neglected of human rights. The injustices that violate [...]
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LAST WEEK, my wife Dr. Pier Boutin, sent an email to my online community about a four-year-old boy with severe clubfeet, Little Mo. This is a boy she met on her trip to Morocco and felt compelled to help. The way the email was sent may have seemed odd or suspicious, but her heart is [...]
AS WE ALL SETTLE INTO THE WARMTH OF OUR FAMILIES and communities over Thanksgiving, my heart, my thoughts and my prayers take me back to Haiti which as I write this blog, is in a state of turmoil, suffering, and chaos that is not much better than after the earthquake. Since the first moments I, [...]
LET FOOD BE THY medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates Want to know the secret behind how Italians stay so thin and happy? It’s a secret I uncovered during my trip to Italy, where I wrote this blog. Sitting in the Umbrian countryside, enjoying a home-cooked meal prepared by Simonetta, a local chef, the [...]
HOW MANY OF YOU are stuck? Do you feel stuck in depression, sadness, or anxiety? Or are you just a little confused, overburdened, or unhappy? Maybe you are one of the 25 percent of Americans who experience a major depression in their lifetime. Or maybe you are taking one of the 189 million prescriptions written [...]
ARE YOU ONE OF the 100 million, or one-in-three, Americans struggling through life with a “broken brain?” It doesn’t have to be that way. Today, I’m going to share with you the key to good mental and emotional health — to an “UltraMind” … one that’s calm, confident, and happy. But first, ask yourself these [...]
THE CHINESE WORD FOR crisis is comprised of two separate words, “danger” and “opportunity” — and this describes the exact situation we face with the healthcare crisis in our country. As a nation we are at the precipice of change for our healthcare system. But if we make the wrong choices and simply provide universal [...]
CAN YOUR BODY AFFECT your mind? By making different food and lifestyle choices, can you rid yourself of depression, boost your mood or even improve more serious conditions such as ADHD, autism and more? In my experience, the answer is YES and I’ll show you precisely how in just a second. But first, let me [...]
WANT TO KNOW THE real truth about healthcare in this country? Even if President Obama and Congress get everything else right in healthcare reform, it won’t matter … that is, unless we address the underlying causes of illness that drive both skyrocketing healthcare costs and the proliferation of chronic disease. But we can’t get there [...]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. This isolated, serene Caribbean island floated in a calm sea dusted by soft white clouds. We circled patiently, waiting to land for hours at 25,000 feet, watching the sunset across the wing of the Gulfstream jet carrying two orthopedic surgeons, [...]
PLEASE NOTE: THIS blog is a reprint of an article that appeared on Huffington Post. The country has one doctor for 11,000 people. Electricity and running water are available in Port-au-Prince for two hours — on a good day. The chief surgeon at the General Hospital (the largest public national hospital) told me that patients [...]