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Field Notes #40

What if patients pushed for DNA sequencing in mystery infections? 💉🩸💬

10 health-nourishing gift ideas💡🎁

Field Notes #39: Routine check-ups are being delayed ⏰ 📅 🩺

What is health, anyway? 👀 🫁🫀

The Bug Book 🪲

🌬️ Field Notes 38: Strength training for breathing

Winter blues or SAD?

Field Notes #37: When pulse oximeters don't work well

The R.A.I.N. practice ☔

Field Notes #36: You have a new right to your health records in America

Field Notes #35: When should you get your flu shot? 💉 📅

Field Notes #34: One of the most powerful tools for managing Long COVID

New Year reflections

Field Notes #33: Is the pandemic really over?

Field Notes #32: "Our brain is organized to act and feel before we think."

Q&A with author Jana Steck about Lyme disease

Field Notes #31

📚💡Book spotlight: "Invisible Kingdom" by Meghan O'Rourke💡📚

Field Notes #30: Feel-great neck stretches, 4-7-8 breathing, the magic of writing a poem

SuperBetter: How to be gameful with your health

Field Notes #29: Splooting, polio in 2022, Kate Bowler's Blessing for a New School Year

Field Notes #28: How many hours does it take to make a close friend?

Ideal morning routines

Field Notes #27: M*pox, pep talk hotline from little kids, Mary Oliver on joy

“We are the medicine”

Field Notes #26: How ocean views affect how we feel, “Atomic Habits,” & a frittata template

Field Notes #25: emoji pain scale, NASA photo of star birth, & guidance to “live the questions”

5 gifts to give yourself

Field Notes #24: The best hours of your day, dangers of a pool dunk, & homemade ricotta

Shocking medical bills

Field Notes #23: The energizing power of a cold shower, Frank Bruni's "The Beauty of Dusk" & how to deal with decision fatigue

When stress is good

Field Notes #22: Good News Edition

Field Notes #21: Mask paradox, understanding pain, “Epigenetic” poem by Rebecca Sturgeon

Field Notes #20: Blood pressure measurements at home, indispensable idleness, & a poem by Courtney Martin

Field Notes #19: Bird music, Surgeon General's new burnout advisory, Mental Health Awareness Month

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Field Notes #17: COVID-19 edition

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The messy middle

Field Notes #13

"We have plans"

Field Notes #12: Meeting-Free Focus Days, Bear Fruit Rolls, The Healthier Hustle on nudging your negativity bias aside

7 different kinds of rest

Field Notes #11: What I'm Reading in Spring 2022

Our bodies like having fun

Field Notes #10: Alternate-nostril breathing, a framework for leading mindfully, ode to bananas

Simple, radical health tip: Ask for the printout

Field Notes #9: Suleika Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms, Isolation Journals, 100-Day Project

The smack of a diagnosis

Field Notes #8: Two books I loved: "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman & “Iceberg," an exquisite memoir by Marion Coutts

Rewiring our thoughts in a mask-less world

Field Notes #7: Blessing for Ukraine, Good Enough Lent Guide, Exercises for Back Pain

Walking through troubled times

Field Notes #6: Emotions as messengers, quick-easy-healthy shakshuka, Dr. Paul Farmer on cynicism

How to complete the stress cycle

Field Notes #5: Amanda Palmer on witnessing grief, OWYN Shakes, Solidarity Week for Compassionate Patient Care

A hidden factor in healthy love

Five ways I enjoy tracking daily life & health

Capturing the diamond dust of our days

Field Notes #3: Carrot Cumin Soup from Smitten Kitchen, Q&A on perimenopause, Blessings from John O’Donohue

How I stopped feeling so tired in the morning

Field Notes #2: A poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, COVID-19 expert Dr. Eric Topol, & my favorite water filter

5 Handholds for Your Odyssey

Field Notes #1: Tomato Egg Drop Soup, Kurt Vonnegut on loneliness, podcast interview with the author of "The Body Keeps the Score"