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Mindfulness in the Hospital

Posted by Philip Ryan on 20 Oct 2009 in

Work on that bedside manner, docs.

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Reply by dress on January 27, 2010, 3:06 am

we are conditioned to ward off all pain. We are unwilling to allow the pain simply to happen…

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