It's been called a number of names: Preventive medicine, predictive medicine, proactive medicine.
The Center for Health Discovery is a new venture at Emory University in Atlanta.
This is intriguing, as Western medicine tends to focus on fixing and curing disease. So, we — docs and patients — are more attuned to crisis rather than health promotion, or maintenance.
But you don't have to wait for a crisis to get well.
Read the article from Emory magazine here. Let me know what you think about this concept.
A health and fitness blog: With an occasional food item
Saturday, August 30, 2008
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