By André Islabão Originally published on October 2021: André Islabão 2021 A slow philosophy is increasingly a necessity in our world. The movement that started as Slow Food now has variants like Slow School, Slow Travel, Slow Cities and Slow Money, just to name a few. The benefits of this slow philosophy for medicine are becoming more and more evident, and…
By Marco Bobbio Since December 2020, the Slow Medicine association has been collecting stories from doctors, nurses, social and health professionals, patients, and relatives who have experienced the effectiveness of a measured, respectful, and equitable approach to treat a disease. Writing a personal experience helps care professionals to deeply understand the point of view of…
By Marco Bobbio Sophisticated lover of music and wines, witty, inconstant, acute thinker, egocentric, forge of original thoughts, shy, brilliant, highly educated, beautiful tenor voice, irreverent. Giorgio has been my mentor since I was medical student and I followed his thoughts for 45 years, which have gone by like this. In one breath. Giorgio Bert…
Author: Danielle Ofri Surgeons more than physicians and physicians more than nurses are convinced that surgery or prescription is the only way to heal; everything else is talking. After all, in universities, it is taught that only technical skills count. We prepare students to read a CT scan, interpret an ECG, and evaluate a set…
By Dennis McCullough and Jacqueline C. Wootton Originally published on November 2008: Dennis McCullough 2008 This mild-mannered, gentle book belies a steely and radical approach to medicine. On the one hand, it is a consumer book full of practical advice and wisdom on the best way to care for aging parents in their final stages of…
By Antonio Bonaldi and Sandra Vernero Originally published on February 2015: Bonaldi and Vernero, 2015 Summary. Italy’s Slow Medicine was founded in 2011 as a movement aimed to promote processes of care based on appropriateness, but within a relation of listening, dialogue and decision sharing with the patient. The mission of Slow Medicine is synthetized by…
By Jaqueline Doring Rodrigues Originally published on October 2018: https://www.slowmedicine.com.br/medicina-baseada-em-empatia-vendo-atraves-do-olhar-do-outro/ “ To be empathetic is to see the world through the other person’s eyes and not see our world reflected in their eyes.” (Carl Rogers) Empathy has the power to transform human relationships. It can also potentially increase the effectiveness of therapeutic approaches in the health…
Author: Paul Kalanithi “Science may be the most effective way to organize empirical and reproducible data, but this power of its springs from the inability to grasp the fundamental aspects of human life: Hope, Fear, Love, Hate, Beauty, Envy, Honor, Weakness, Commitment, Suffering, Virtue”. Paul Kalanithi was a neurosurgeon who comes to these reflections, not…
Author: Victoria Sweet Victoria Sweet recounts the years she worked as a physician at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, California, a large hospital for the chronically ill, the last functioning almhouse in the United States. The tradition of the Almhouses was to give shelter to the poor, to the old, to people who had…
By Ana Coradazzi Originally published on April 2020: https://www.slowmedicine.com.br/o-gosto-amargo-das-framboesas/ “You know all about that possible bitter future. You also know that you could no longer turn back, that you are entirely subdued, and your words, whatever they may be, will never be wise enough to determine that this door to be opened now, right after…