By Ladd Bauer Originally published on November 2008: Ladd Bauer 2008 In 2002, a cardiologist in Italy, home of the slow food movement, published a paper in a cardiology journal advocating the idea of “slow medicine,” as a way of thinking about appropriately holding off the use of heart devices.(1) In the United States, the usual attitude propels advocacy of…
By Marco Bobbio Originally published on January 2018: https://www.slowmedicine.it/intervista-a-victoria-sweet/ Last October, the latest book by Victoria Sweet, author of God’s Hotel – a doctor, a hospital and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine (2012), was published. In that book the author had foreseen the birth of a Slow Medicine, an unhurried medicine in which the doctor…
By Ana Coradazzi Originally published on January 13, 2019: https://www.slowmedicine.com.br/slow-medicine-fast-medicine-de-maos-dadas/ When JCV, 61 years old, poorly controlled hypertensive and obese, arrived at the emergency room complaining of intense “burning” pain in his chest about 50 minutes ago, irradiating to his left arm and associated with cold sweats, he barely had time to think. Within minutes, the…
By Alberto Dolara Originally published in Italian Heart Journal: Supplement. Official Journal of the Italian Federation of Cardiologists 3.1 (2002): 100-101 (Translated by Elizabeth Castelli) …the haste that mars the dignity of every act… Dante, Purgatorio, Canto III In current society the constant impulse, even if not always justified, toward the acceleration of all aspects of daily life…
By José Carlos Campos Velho Originally published on September 28, 2017: https://www.slowmedicine.com.br/slow-medicine-nao-e-uma-especialidade-medica-saiba-por-que/ Is Slow Medicine a medical specialty? The Slow Medicine Movement has its origins in Italy. The expression was coined by Alberto Dolara in 2002 in his article “Un invito ad una Slow Medicine”, in which he pointed out that, like food, as proposed…
By José Carlos Campos Velho Originally published on November 07, 2019: https://www.slowmedicine.com.br/o-que-e-slow-medicine-e-o-que-nao-e/ “Everything in us is in our concept of the world; to modify our concept of the world is to modify the world for us, that is, it is to modify the world, because the world will never be, for us, anything different from…