Entries from October 2007

October 19, 2007

Laughter’s the Best Medicine…Seriously

Patients are skeptical the first time they attend CHAP’s Laugh Yoga class. After all, Yoga may be a new concept for them and they may feel self-conscious that people will be laughing at them rather than with them. It doesn’t take long for the instructor to break the ice and by the end of the [...]

October 3, 2007

High Tech, High Touch

New technologies are opening amazing frontiers in the treatment of diseases.  
Unfortunately, the day-to-day practice of medicine has remained little changed for decades. Step into almost any medical office and you will most likely find one suite devoted entirely to maintaining files of patient records. 
That, finally, is changing. More and more medical providers are replacing paper [...]