Doctor James Aw, is obviously not just a medical doctor. He is a firm believer in LIFE-STYLE MEDICINE
http://www.medcan.com/
As a pneumatologist and pneuma-therapist, I appreciate and admire professionals like Dr. James Aw--those who are also social activists and writers willing to take risks educate us--Dr. James Aw is the medical director of the Medcan Clinic (Toronto). I have a copy of an important article article he wrote for The Financial Post, March 26, 2014.
He wrote about how important it is for doctors and patients to understand what "Lifestyle Medicine " is all about, plus what is the role of individual patients.
Perhaps what we need is a "NEW profession" he wrote--one that is somewhere between being a fitness trainer and a medical doctor, whose job it is to be a "health coach"; one with our permission to kick our butts often enough until we get the message of HOLISM."
IMO, already Dr. AW appears to be well prepared to learn about and teach the ancient knowledge (science and art) of pneumatology--the mother of psychology. In addition, armed with the story of PNEUMATOLOGY & the PNEUMA-therapy, he readily prepared to teach it to his patients, who will then be prepared to help the doctor help his patients.
Medcan Counselling & Coaching - Assessment
The Medcan Counselling & Coaching Assessment is a 90-minute appointment with a Medcan psychologist where you will undergo a comprehensive interview in a safe and confidential environment. Your psychologist will use this time to determine your specific needs for any psychological treatment which could include weekly 60 minute follow up appointments.
Some of the issues that are addressed include coping with stress, depression, attention issues, self-esteem, relationship management, workplace challenges as well as personal life situations and decisions.
LET'S HAVE FUN AS WE learn to PLAY LIFE as A WIN/WIN GAME
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THE GOAL IS: Getting healthy, and staying healthy--in body, mind and spirit--that is,
in Nature, Nurture & inspired forever by a creative Pneumature--within and around all of us. This can be a win/win and JOY-filled game for all who participate, in all of life.
This WILL happen when we stop just being patients waiting to be healed, or die, by therapists. Instead, this is our opportunity to become enthusiastic--that is, GOD-&-Spirit-filled--Self-motivated therapists of self, family and community.
AN IMPORTANT RECENT BOOK:
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande
http://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/
From Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine – and lives.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.
Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients’ anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. And families go along with all of it.
In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now he examines its ultimate limitations and failures – in his own practices as well as others’ – as life draws to a close. And he discovers how we can do better. He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside down. He finds people who show us how to have the hard conversations and how to ensure we never sacrifice what people really care about.
Riveting, honest, and humane,
Being Mortal shows that the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life – all the way to the very end.
This brings to our common mind one that most of us like to avoid:
DEATH & DYING! Let me know what you think of having and open dialogue about this subject!
ME? I will and choose to die peacefully, in my sleep.
How about you?
Seriously speaking, I believe that when we will it the
PNEUMA factor,
WILL, help us arrange what is best for us ...
[If you like the idea, we can have a dialogue about what you feel is best for YOU ... the floor is yours! ]
