by Allen Curreri | Aug 31, 2018 | Health, Mindfulness
For nearly 40 years, Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) have been researched, developed, supported, and improved. Throughout the last several decades, MBI has progressively moved through health care, mental health, and education. In 1979, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn...
by Allen Curreri | Jul 16, 2018 | Health, Mindfulness
The transformative benefits of mindfulness have only recently become recognized within numerous facets of society, from the office to the operating room and beyond. By broadening our conscious awareness, we are able to evoke a variety of therapeutic sensations that...
by Allen Curreri | Jun 15, 2018 | Health, Medical Technology
We live in a time of imagination and possibility – or at least, that’s how it seems from the waiting room. Innovations in medical tech have given doctors and patients alike opportunities that they never could have dreamed of a decade or two ago, much less...
by Allen Curreri | May 9, 2018 | Health, Medical Technology
When we picture disaster, we think of a storm. We imagine downed power lines, ice-cold heaters, and flooded rooms. In our minds, devastation and danger comes in the dramatic wake of blinding rain and hurricane winds; we never imagine that it could creep in on a...
by Allen Curreri | Apr 19, 2018 | Health, Mindfulness
A man limps into the emergency room, his face twisted in pain. He hunches through the revolving door, barely able to make it to one of the waiting room’s flimsy plastic chairs before losing his footing. A nurse rushes over to guide him to an exam room and look...
by Allen Curreri | Mar 15, 2018 | Health, Mindfulness
Six in the morning, and it’s dark outside. Step through the revolving door, change into scrubs – just another shift. Make the rounds, talk with the nurses. One patient stopped taking their meds; you postpone breakfast to explain why they need to start...