L-19-edl - health 1: life management skills v18-perez, c / unit 1: what is health?
what makes us sick
1. when rishi manchanda says, "where health care begins is not the four walls of a doctor's
office, but where we live and work, where we eat, sleep, learn, and play, where we spend
the majority of our time," what specifically does he mean? how can work and play or
where we eat and sleep impact our health?
2 how is the way that rishi manchanda approached diagnosing and treating veronica's
illness different from the way that other doctors might have approached it? do you think
manchanda's approach is ? why or why not?
3. what does rishi manchanda mean when he says that his approach to health care is an
"upstream approach
4. if what rishi manchanda says is true, and our living and working conditions have more
than twice the impact on our health than our genetic codes have, why do you think that
doctors don't pay more attention to their patients' living conditions?