The Importance of Community Interventions in Healthcare

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Social science has discussed the impact of social relationships on mortality for decades. But this concept only recently started to penetrate healthcare. Dr. Julian Abel discusses his U.K.-based study showing a significant drop in demand for emergency services from end-of-life patients if they received an intervention of a compassionate community. Another large study shows that connection increases longevity more than quitting smoking. In this episode, we consider broader implications and ways to cultivate community, both personally and as a practitioner. https://drruscio.com/?p=32420

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and functional medicine.
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0:26.9	The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat
0:32.1	any disease.
0:33.2	Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor.
0:37.1	Now, let's head to the show.
0:39.6	Hi, everyone.
0:40.4	Welcome to Dr. Ruscio.
0:41.6	This is Dr. Ruscio.
0:42.6	Today I'm here with Dr. Julian Abel, and we're going to be talking about the important
0:46.1	of compassion and community building and how that may lead to a measurable decrease in the
0:52.5	use of medicine, hospitals, in the emergency room.
0:56.7	And Julian came to my attention after speaking with Tommy Woods, who I have a high amount of respect
1:01.3	for, and he highly recommended Julian.
1:03.8	So, Julian, welcome to the show, and thanks for being here today.
1:06.6	Well, thanks very much for inviting me on.
1:08.5	I'm delighted to talk to you.
1:10.1	Yeah, it's a conversation that I think is always good to have and bring up repeatedly
1:15.9	because there does seem to be this natural inertia of our lifestyles to pull us into a bit more
1:21.3	of a isolated way of living, or at least that's how my life seems to be.
1:26.0	And so these reminders about how
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