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Victoria Sweet is an American physician, author and advocate for what is termed "slow medicine". She is also a historian of medicine who has studied the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German abbess and medical therapist. Wikipedia

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“We can allow for Slow Medicine beds in our hospitals so that doctors have enough time to find out what is really wrong with a patient, and patients have enough time to heal.”

Victoria Sweet

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)

“...I learned a Slow Medicine lesson: how individual medicine was. It wasn't true that one size fits all, that everyone or no one should have that treatment or this pill. Rather, the right answer had to do with style, with who you were, who the patient was.”

Victoria Sweet

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)

“We don't need to remake our health-care system or rebuild it from the ground up. We don't need to do very much. It's pretty simple, quite attainable. Just an added perspective and a change of pace.”

Victoria Sweet

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)

“The essence of Medicine is story-- finding the right story, understanding the true story, being unsatisfied with a story that does not make sense. Healthcare, on the other hand, deconstructs story into thousands of tiny pieces-- pages of boxes and check marks for which no one is responsible.”

Victoria Sweet

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)

“...when you're on your pilgrimage, you don't even need to know where you're going. You just have to know when you're off your path.”

Victoria Sweet

HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medicine-and-selfdiscover_b_5186859

“Every time a new drug comes out, I read what the side effects are and how many people really get better, and I add in the side effects and the adverse reactions. When you do that, and subtract out the placebo effect, not many new medications make a difference.”

Victoria Sweet

Works and Conversations http://www.conversations.org/story.php?sid=399

“Patients are not consumers, but sick, scared, vulnerable. Doctors and nurses are practicing a calling, a vocation, a craft and an art.”

Victoria Sweet

San Francisco Catholic https://catholic-sf.org/news/slow-medicine

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