Why Allow Illness to Be Part of Your Identity?

MyCentralJersey - H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, comments on the health consequences of focusing our thinking on disease. "Too many people are being made to worry about diseases they don't have and are at only average risk to get," says Welch. "You may not consider that a harm, but remember health is not simply a state of physical being, it's also a state of mind." Read more...