tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post3811281247491320801..comments2023-03-26T01:02:06.760-07:00Comments on The Fearless Heart: Thoughts on Hospitals and HealingMiki Kashtanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00907977416574801559noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-57925686135689987792012-11-13T19:49:25.384-08:002012-11-13T19:49:25.384-08:00Dear Debbie,
I am so grateful to you for writing ...Dear Debbie,<br /><br />I am so grateful to you for writing this. It may not have sufficiently clear from my blog, so I want to perhaps clarify my intention: it was exactly to highlight that despite the health care system being totally filled with people like you, who care deeply about patients, who want everything to work, it still doesn't work. <br /><br />I am a bit confused, in fact, Miki Kashtanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00907977416574801559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-64127744623346609452012-11-13T07:35:49.620-08:002012-11-13T07:35:49.620-08:00I am sad as I read Miki's piece as I also desi...I am sad as I read Miki's piece as I also desire the highest good of the patient. I am a dedicated healthcare provider, struggling each and every moment, to provide care that meets the spiritual, psychological and health needs of each of my patients. Honestly, given the years of education, time studying, and financial expense preparing for this ministry, my experience has been working with Debbienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-18373054801227049272012-11-11T16:44:14.009-08:002012-11-11T16:44:14.009-08:00I appreciate how you could lay out your vision of ...I appreciate how you could lay out your vision of what could be without denigrating the people working in the current system -- clearly identifying that there are systemic issues here, not issues with specific people or a specific hospital. I also love the clarity of identifying a few key elements that could drastically change the hospital experience -- nature, nutrition, choice, peace. I Jean McElhaneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-6465938409937008922012-11-11T14:39:00.719-08:002012-11-11T14:39:00.719-08:00...including the most elemental, foundational heal......including the most elemental, foundational healing modalities you mention here...loving presence, kindness, healthy food, fresh air, sleep....sarahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-37760631347834307002012-11-11T14:34:01.486-08:002012-11-11T14:34:01.486-08:00Amen, sista'. I'm sending this link out t...Amen, sista'. I'm sending this link out to my midwife friends.<br />I would love for modern medicine-- with its expertise on diagnostics, drugs and surgery--to find its rightful and humble place among the community of healers and healing traditions in this country and all around the world.<br />sarahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-68353418658089032892012-11-11T11:08:50.586-08:002012-11-11T11:08:50.586-08:00while being two months in hospital before havinhpg...while being two months in hospital before havinhpg birth, i was so upset frustrated and in pain of all of these same points you wrote about. i dream with you for a major change at hospitals. but what are the chances, with so many forces determine the reality (budgets, fear of law suits, same stuff work many years etc.)?yaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-58549470596007587752012-11-11T10:28:17.151-08:002012-11-11T10:28:17.151-08:00Oh yes, the link to the movie scene:
http://www.yo...Oh yes, the link to the movie scene:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jM_9usV3Yg&feature=relmfuRon Greensteinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-34999278315789112772012-11-11T09:12:51.665-08:002012-11-11T09:12:51.665-08:00So long as self-interested financial consideration...So long as self-interested financial considerations are valued more highly than a patient's healing, our creative genius will remain unrealized. Conventional medicine and attitudes about the nature of what is considered to be illness need to be examined and questioned. This is happening and changes are taking place gradually. There have been set backs over the years fostered by ignorance, Ron Greensteinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-87011615709460471272012-11-11T09:08:17.487-08:002012-11-11T09:08:17.487-08:00 So much I enjoyed about this read from the distin... So much I enjoyed about this read from the distinction between cure and healing to seeing and listening to Patch Adams. Inspiring and hopeful..providing a tangible vision which feeds me,thanks!Ninihttp://garynini.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-75266115566767647282012-11-11T07:18:43.158-08:002012-11-11T07:18:43.158-08:00I’m really touched by this post. I recently had th...I’m really touched by this post. I recently had the privilege of teaching a meditation course for doctors and other health care workers. What pain from their side too. Truly we need to dream about this (and act), for the benefit of all of us.<br /><br />I’m particularly struck by what you wrote about food. I’ve been deeply frustrated for many years by the way the health care system seems to Jean Meierhttp://creativelearningassoc.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-72151172279298110602012-11-11T06:24:18.114-08:002012-11-11T06:24:18.114-08:00Here's a short tedtalk pointing towards the ef...Here's a short tedtalk pointing towards the effects of closed air systems on microbial ecology in hospitals and other buildings. (A little support for opening windows from our scientist friends) http://www.ted.com/talks/jessica_green_are_we_filtering_the_wrong_microbes.htmlT. Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920825104944402542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754739242520868315.post-72552117606317851792012-11-10T23:48:40.158-08:002012-11-10T23:48:40.158-08:00You go, woman. I am so holding this vision with y...You go, woman. I am so holding this vision with you. Marinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10958784239023224721noreply@blogger.com