Health
Holistic medicine, or “holistic health”, is a belief that both the physical and mental aspects of life are closely connected and factor into the overall health and wellness of a person. Holistic health is usually associated with the topic of alternative medicine, but it is becoming more mainstream in this day and age. The concept […]
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As the opioid epidemic rages on, medical educators and researchers are increasingly exploring nonpharmacological treatments for pain. When patients with chronic pain visit Erica Kumala, MD, at the Family Medicine Clinic at Alvernon, they likely won’t leave with an opioid prescription. Rather, the second-year resident in the University of Arizona—Tucson Alvernon Family Medicine Residency program […]
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Lack of training in healthcare is a challenging problem. But, there are several low-cost training options to improve staff competency, quality of patient care, and business profits. Official training programs are an integral part of hiring new employees and integrating them into a company. But sadly, the training often stops soon after orientation. With growing […]
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Millennials love self-improvement; whether it’s learning how to be an inspirational leader or changemaker, coding for beginners or Leaning In – they seemingly can’t get enough of it. In 2015, as much as 94 per cent of millennials reported making personal improvement commitments (compared with 84 per cent of Boomers and 81 per cent of […]
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Much has been written about the importance of remembering the lessons of history. Surely we should be able to recall the mistakes that led us to fascism, or to many of the other deplorable actions of our collective and individual pasts, so that we can use the past to avoid repeating previous errors in politics, […]
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Though I didn’t realize it at the time, when we transformed my local gym into a member-owned cooperative back in early 2017, it set in motion a new, high-tech model for community fitness centers that’s now used by over a thousand gyms around the country. Like many of the other forty-thousand fitness centers in the […]
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I’ve always been a sucker for self improvement. Growing up, my mom filled our bookshelves with self-help books until my dad officially banned her from bringing new books into the house (then she enlisted my brother and I into sneaking them in). Now, as an adult, my Kindle is loaded with books like Gladwell’s The […]
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