Slow Medicine Quotes

“once you become a patient—vulnerable, scared, passive—then you need a doctor, a real doctor-person—calm, authoritative, wise. And since all of us, even the youngest, healthiest, fiercest hacker will, in the end, be in that place—which to discover we must travel to—we all need a system that incorporates both: the virtual and the real, the digital and the analog, the Fast and the Slow. And I believe we will have it.”
― Victoria Sweet, Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

“After I finally understood Hildegard’s viriditas, I found myself not only looking at my patient with the eye of a modern doctor—asking myself, What’s wrong? And how can I fix it?—but also stepping back and looking at my patient in the context of his environment, and asking myself: What can I do to remove what’s in the way of viriditas? And what can I do to fortify it?”
― Victoria Sweet, Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing