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We don't need to remake our health-care system or rebuild it from the ground up. We don't need to do very much. It's pretty simple, quite attainable. Just an added perspective and a change of pace.

— Victoria Sweet Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)

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Is anything interfering with viriditas [vigor]? What can I do to remove it?

Patients are not consumers, but sick, scared, vulnerable. Doctors and nurses are practicing a calling, a vocation, a craft and an art.

We can allow for Slow Medicine beds in our hospitals so that doctors have enough time to find out what is really wrong with a patient, and patients have enough time to heal.

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)

What do I mean by "soul"?...Presence. Attention. Judgment. Kindness. Above all, responsibility.

Every time a new drug comes out, I read what the side effects are and how many people really get better, and I add in the side effects and the adverse reactions. When you do that, and subtract out the placebo effect, not many new medications make a difference.

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