14 APHORISMS
by country doctor Dr. David Loxterkamp:
1. Health is not a commodity.
2. Risk factors are not disease.
3. Aging is not an illness; death is not defeat.
4. Quality is more than metrics.
5. Doctors expect too much from data and not enough from conversation.
6. Doing all we can is not always doing what we should.
7. To fix a problem is easy; to share suffering is hard.
8. The most common condition we treat is unhappiness.
9. The most potent pill we can offer is our own happiness.
10. Nothing is more patient-centered than the process of change.
11. Community is the locus of healing, not the hospital.
12. Time is precious. We spend it on what we value.
13. Patients cannot see outside their pain; we cannot see in. Relationship is the bridge.
14. The foundation of a healing relationship is conversation, friendship and hope.
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