Dr. Vivek Murthy, the nineteenth Surgeon General of the United States and author of the book Together: The Healing Power of Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, named another adverse condition—loneliness—the number one medical problem in the country. In a Harvard Business Review essay, he said: During my years caring for patients, the most common pathology I saw was not heart disease or diabetes; it was loneliness. Loneliness and weak social connections are associated with a reduction in lifespan similar to that caused by smoking fifteen cigarettes a day and even greater than that
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