by John Leifer | Mar 23, 2015 | Cancer, end of life care, End of Life Issues, Hope
Sometimes writing has a strange way of foreshadowing life. The past six months have been marked by an almost constant struggle to shape an unwieldy manuscript on hope at the end of life into something manageable and hopefully meaningful. I finally relinquished the...
by John Leifer | Mar 15, 2015 | Healthcare, Healthcare reform, PCP, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical, Physician Ownership, Physicians, Transparency
Dr. James Mirabile was kind enough to have me as a guest on his hour-long radio program on 3/14/15. We discussed some of the key themes found in The Myths of Modern Medicine: The Alarming Truth About American Health Care. I would invite you to spend a few minutes...
by John Leifer | Mar 12, 2015 | End of Life Issues
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost The following excerpt is from a book in-progress about hope at the end of life. It exemplifies an unusual phenomenon, known as terminal lucidity, in which people, who have...
by John Leifer | Feb 2, 2015 | Healthcare, PCP, Physicians
(The following post is an excerpt from The Myths of Modern Medicine: The Alarming Truth About American Health Care by John Leifer) Imagine navigating the Amazon without a guide. Though the health care system isn’t rife with venomous snakes and flesh-eating fish, there...
by John Leifer | Jan 22, 2015 | Healthcare, Prevention, Wellness
Many of you have written to me stressing the importance of maximizing one’s health by engaging in appropriate lifestyle behaviors. I agree that this is a vitally important theme, and thus offer the following excerpt from The Myths of Modern Medicine for your...
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