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Taking Your Foot off of the Accelerator
For Recently Diagnosed Cancer Patients and Their Families There is one piece of advice that Lori and I offer without equivocation to newly diagnosed cancer patients – slow down…take your foot off of the accelerator, and realize that you have begun a journey not a...
Can Health Care Handle True Innovators?
Imagine that you are scanning through resumes of your latest job applicants, and you come across an individual whose job history includes: university professor, healthcare executive, consultant, professional photographer, karate instructor, advertising executive,...
When Hope at the End of Life Transcends Mere Words on a Page
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...
John Leifer’s Recent Radio Conversation with a Physician About the Myths of Modern Medicine
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...
Poetry at the End of Life
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...
INTERVIEWING YOUR PCP
(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...
Taking Responsibility for Our Health
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...
What’s The Matter with Health Care? It All Comes Down to Money
The World’s Most Expensive Care I remember when a bottle of soda pop cost a dime. It came in an icy cold glass bottle with a cork-lined cap. Over time, the bottle and cap gave way to a can, and the price rose to a quarter, then half a dollar, and even a buck. But what...
“Honor Amongst Thieves” — A Perspective on the Access to Medicine Index
Each year, the Access to Medicine Foundation publishes a hierarchical list of pharmaceutical companies ranked on their efforts to “improve access to medicine in developing countries.” See: http://www.accesstomedicineindex.org/ranking. Without wanting to diminish the...