09 Nov discussion post 11

Please, watch this video:

https://www.ted.com/talks/ashwin_mehta_the_leader_as_healer_integrative_medicine_in_the_new_era_of_healthcare

1. What are the characteristics of integrative medicine?
2. Can you identify a time that you have integrated complementary or alternative techniques into your treatment?
3. What effect did mindfulness-based meditation have on the telomeres of participants described in the video?
4. As it is addressed in the video, research suggests that the way we bring ourselves fully into connection with those from whom we care is one of the most crucial factors supporting how people heal and how they respond to our therapeutic efforts.
   1. As future health professionals, how do you think this would affect creative nonadherence?
   2. And the patient-practitioner relationship?
5. How do you think culture plays a role in the way we perceive health and illness?
6. How do biopsychosocial factors influence the treatment we seek?

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