Victor Montori is an endocrinologist and author of Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care.
“Where do you find the most joy in your life?”
This is one of the questions the Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit at Mayo Clinic asks people living with ongoing health conditions. Their answers give a sense of each person’s purpose, reason for being, and for doing something difficult.
The answers are myriad; typical responses include “providing for my family,” “being there for my grandchildren,” or “taking care …
An excerpt from Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care.
It was late at the premier teaching hospital in the country, and we were overworked and overwhelmed. Those patients in most trouble had made it in, but many waited outside, a domino line …
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