| Ten
Prerequisites for 21st Century Health |
•
freedom
• self esteem
• lifelong growth and learning
• lifelong meaningful work
• pleasure
• to love and beloved
• open communication with others
• a sense of community
• connectedness to a universal life force
• some level of socioeconomic well being
Dr. Rick Lippin
July, 1996
revised November, 1999.
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| Each
of us is born with beauty within us which we desire to make
manifest and share during our lifetime. What better way to
achieve this fundamental human drive for creative expression
than through the arts? All we need is permission. All we need
is love. Richard
Lippin
"The Doctrine of
Original Beauty”
1994
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As
the enterprise of health care increasingly embraces a holistic
(bio-psycho-social-spiritual) model, so too the field of
architecture is exploring holism -- manifested by increasing
interest in breaking down barriers between places of worship,
places of healing and places of artistic display or artistic
performance -- Thus lines are blurring between churches,
hospitals, art museums and performance halls -- What shall
we call these new structures of total healing?
Richard
Lippin |
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Our
renaissance has arrived
Its names are holism and humanism
Both its manifestation and its nourishment
is the arts.
R.Lippin
Mitzpe Rachel, Israel
April, 1989 |
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| "The
incorporation of responsible pleasures into patients’
lives is the single most underutilized source of health in
our time.”
The Impact of Responsible Pleasures on Health
and Longevity The Society of Prospective Medicine -
Annual Conference
Richard A. Lippin, MD
March 1996
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| Individual
Responsibility on Health Care |
As
we have done with welfare reform, it is time to apply the
cherished (and correct) American principle of individual
responsibility to health care in this nation. The U.S. Center
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that
about half of all premature mortalities are directly related
to individually-chosen health behaviors. A growing number
of U.S. citizens are becoming increasingly intolerant of
economically subsidizing those who willfully choose to abuse
their bodies and thus jeopardize their health and health
insurance premium rates to modifiable individuals risks.
Also, through more aggressive medical claims analysis, we
need to implement programs that effectively manage modifiable
costs linked to modifiable behaviors. Educated, enlightened
and empowered patient-citizens, properly incented, need
to engage in responsible health-related behaviors. The health,
social and economic consequences of not doing so are so
staggering as to threaten the very stability of our nation.
We need to give patients across this country -- and by example
the rest of the world -- the greatest gift of all: the gift
of themselves.
Richard
Lippin |
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| Grow
Up America - A Health Care Reform Plan |
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Stop prolonging death. It’s both expensive and dehumanizing
at best, greedy and cruel at worst.
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Empower US citizens to assume increased individual responsibility
for health and convince medical consumers that it is in
their best interests not to assume the role of helpless,
dependent victims/patients.
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Face the reality that a very large percentage of illnesses,
injuries and hospitalizations are entirely preventable.
Subsequently, the elimination of tobacco, alcohol, drug
and medication abuse alone could immediately reduce medical
costs by a factor of at least fifty percent.
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Incent and train physicians to maintain the health of patients
and populations.
•
Recognize that early childhood preventive medical education
can profoundly affect lifelong health behaviors.
proposed
by
Richard A. Lippin, MD
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| The
Three Most Serious Mistakes of Contemporary U.S. Medicine |
-Doctors
stopped listening to patients
-Doctors stopped touching patients
-Doctors ignored the application of the science of physics
or energy systems to medicine |
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The
fundamental goal of Eastern man is transcendance
The fundamental goal of Western man is creation
Dr. Rick Lippin
January 1999
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The true healer neither knows nor seeks
boundaries between the arts and medicine.
Richard
Lippin |
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| Medicine's
REAL Revolution |
| Major
advances in modern Neuroscience with all of its profound implications
(like the physiology of human perception and the physiology
of human intentionality or choice) will significantly dwarf,
if not render childlike, all the projections that molecular
biology and the human genome project will “revolutionize”
Medicine in the 21st century
Dr. Rick Lippin
January, 1999
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| Paradigm
of Medical Optimism |
| While
I have written extensively on the so called Paradigm of Medical
Optimism (a term I first utilized in1991), at its essence
this paradigm is essentially one which is based on a love
of life, self determination and responsibility, in contradistinction
to our current predominant medical paradigm of pathology and
paternalism which is based on a fear of death, dependency
and victimhood
Rick Lippin, M.D
March ,1995
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| Ten
Commandments for the 21st Century - Based on a Paradigm of
Spiritual Optimism* |
1.
To thine own self be true-know thyself, love thyself, be
thyself
2. Honor thy parents who have given you the gift of life
and who have raised you from infancy
3. Honor and protect the planet earth which is your home
4. Honor and protect the holy temple of your body- your
human flesh
5. Seek, experience and celebrate the beauty of everyone
and everything
6. Enjoy thyself that thou might be enjoyed
7. Cherish and protect your individual freedom
8. Find and do meaningful work throughout all the days of
your life
9. Prepare for a quality and dignified death from the very
beginning of your life - cultivate gratitude
1O. Give and receive as much love as you possibly can including
the unconditional and infinite love of God
Dr.
Rick Lippin
April
2000
*
with gratitude to high priestess extraordinaire- Dr. Joan
Borysenko who gave us all the gift of the transformational
words- “spiritual optimism” |
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| The
Medicine of Who You Are |
| If
the human genome is the map for human biology the arts is
the map of the equally important human heart and soul
Dr. Rick Lippin
July, 2000
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| New
Roles for Physicians in the Information Age |
| -Information
sorters, guides and interpreters
-Decision specialists/coaches
-Teachers
-Motivators of Behavioral Change
-Integrating patient’s values into
health care
-Spiritual guides
-Care coordinators (especially primary care)
-Patient advocates
-Providers of emotional support (being there)
-Others?
Dr. Rick Lippin
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| The
practice of Medicine at its best is mostly giving patients
permission, guidance, and encouragement to become themselves
Dr.
Rick Lippin
April 1984
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| Rx
Find and do meaningful work until the day
you die
Dr. Rick Lippin
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| On
this tragic day in our country’s history I cannot help
but say I have often thought (as others possibly have) that
the opposite of violence, terrorism or even war is not the
absence of those activities, but rather the creative process,
including the arts which of course is related to healing.
Richard A. Lippin, MD
Founding President,
International Arts-Medicine Association
Remarks made at the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia, 4/21/95
(two days after the Oklahoma City bombing)
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"The
opposite of war is not peace - it is the creative process."
Dr.
Rick Lippin |
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"The
most dangerous words ever written or spoken: 'God is on
my side'. The most healing words ever written or spoken:
'God is at my side'."
Dr.
Rick Lippin |
