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What's Broken About Health Care & How To Fix It
Lissa Rankin, November 10, 2011
If you haven’t noticed, our health care system in the U.S. is imploding. I mean - things are bad. I’m a doctor, and yet, because I was diagnosed with high blood pressure in my twenties, and because my husband accidentally cut two fingers off his left hand with a table saw, we’re uninsurable under a traditional family health insurance program. We’re still on COBRA, paying $1200/month until it runs out in two years and we’ll have to scramble to find a way to stay insured.
Read More...The Difference Between Healing And Curing
Lissa Rankin, October 2, 2011
Welcome back to The Pink Medicine blog series, wherein I share with you my vision for a new type of health care model, a model I call “Pink Medicine.” In my last post, The Difference Between Sick, Well, & Whole, I talked about my father's death and said that I learned that there is a critical difference between healing and curing. Today I want to expound a bit on that difference.
Key to my Pink Medicine model is the notion that you can heal yourself from illness, trauma, loss - whatever is holding you back from skyrocketing to the stratosphere in all aspects of your life.
But this notion is contingent upon one key bit of semantics.
Read More...The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Part One
Lissa Rankin, June 29, 2011
When I was training to become a physician, the rules of the broken, outdated, patriarchal medical system were made clear to me. They went something like this.
The Old Medicine
Read More...Announcing: The Pink Effect
Lissa Rankin, December 31, 2009
Happy New Year! hope the first day of the new decade finds you energized, inspired, and more in love with yourself and the world than ever.
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