How to live life well? At our home, we do it the Healthwealthbridge way.
As a Doctor, we learn to deal with death and life pragmatically. But the truth is medical and health care professionals all need help when it comes to dealing with death and disability.
The survival rate of doctors is 59 years, while in the population, in general, it is 70 years and more. Doctors don’t like talking about the emotional burden of disease, disability death, and pain. Professionally we cope by blocking some of it and still function. Empathy is important but too much of it could make it difficult to do our job in some ways.
But as more and more diseases have medicines that help us improve longevity without a cure, we are left with offering palliative and supportive care. This is probably one of the most difficult things to do both as a professional and as a caregiver.
But we can all pray that with a life well lived death should be the next adventure.
We don’t want to feel the pain of passing away and we worry about our loved ones and there really are no guarantees. You are just never prepared. Every time I have seen someone die, I have felt a part of me become transparent and leaving my body.
Sounds crazy but if you think of the world as one big energy store, then with every passing, a little transformation occurs and so does with every birth. Have you ever thought about this?
The metaphysical, the ether the power of empathy are vague terms. But when something as absolute as death looks you in the eye,you can only bend your head and give a silent prayer that you have one more second with your loved ones.
Writing helps one cope and this one helped me too.
When I was a child everything was not hunk y dory at home. But who exactly has a peachy childhood and started writing about it? But when you live life well one day at a time, you know you have done your part.
Then a question arises.
How to live life well?
Are you being kind to yourself?
Are you being kind to your loved ones?
Are you being kind to the people who help you?
Do you have a grateful heart?
Are you doing something every day to give back to the community you live in?
Are you doing something to make the world a better place?
Are you educating someone?
Are you trying to live healthy each day every day?
Did you do your forty minutes of exercise?
If you are a writer and you are just sitting, this book about the connection between creative writing and walking could help you.
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Your list to live life well is right on! Thanks for sure your wealth of information.
I’m not doing everything I can to live well. And I should be. Yesterday I visited a person I went to high school with. He’s battling cancer-actually, two cancers. He struggles daily just to live. Life is so precious and I’ve read about the high suicide rate among doctors. I wonder about oncologists.
Living with death frequently (as a doctor like yourself), I would find it difficult to deal with on a regular basis. Thank you for all the work you do. I hope you get your average life expectance higher so you can match everyone else.