Self-care or Repair?

     We've been promoting "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" to our patients for a long time. By and large, they don't listen to us. If understanding concepts were the key, there would be no more obesity, nobody would smoke, and everyone would get regular aerobic exercise.
     Practicing what we know to be reasonable, right, beneficial etc is on an entirely different level - and that includes US living healthy, balanced lives - and if we run into trouble, seeking appropriate professional help. Why do we, who know better, still only seek help AFTER a wheel has fallen off? We're smarter and can do better than that - for our selves, our families, our patients and professions.

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