To the point 8 (in the series the wisdom of others)

Watch this excellent video on chronic pain: it explains in 5 minutes with cartoons concepts that would otherwise take  hours to explain. When I saw it at a medical acupuncture conference in Adelaide in Nov 2011 the audience clapped!
Watch it on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b8oB757DKc

To the point 7 ( in the series The wisdom of others)

"After all these years I have begun to wonder if the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company." 

Dr Rachel Remen 
http://being.publicradio.org/programs/listeninggenerously/transcript.shtml

To the point 6 ( in the series the wisdom of others)

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here."
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/350
Richard Dawkins

To the point 5 (in the series The wisdom of others)

We die. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it. "Life is too short," we say, and it is. Too short for office politics, for busywork and pointless paper chases, for jumping through hoops and covering our asses, for trying to please, to not offend, for constantly struggling to achieve some ever-receding definition of success. Too short as well for worrying whether we bought the right suit, the right breakfast cereal, the right laptop computer, the right brand of underarm deodorant. Life is too short because we die. Alone with ourselves, we sometimes stop to wonder what's important, really..... .....Amazingly, we learn to live with it. Human beings are incredibly resilient. We know it's all temporary, that we can't freeze the good times or hold back the bad. We roll with the punches, regroup, rebuild, pick up the pieces, take another shot. We come to understand that life is just like that. And this seemingly simple understanding is the seed of a profound wisdom. It is also the source of a deep hunger that pervades modern life — a longing for something entirely different from the reality reinforced by everyday experience. We long for more connection between what we do for a living and what we genuinely care about, for work that's more than clock-watching drudgery. We long for release from anonymity, to be seen as who we feel ourselves to be rather than as the sum of abstract metrics and parameters. We long to be part of a world that makes sense rather than accept the accidental alienation imposed by market forces too large to grasp, to even contemplate. And this longing is not mere wistful nostalgia, not just some unreconstructed adolescent dream. It is living evidence of heart, of what makes us most human

Christopher Locke from The Cluetrain Manifesto  http://www.cluetrain.com/

To the point 4 ( in the series The Wisdom of Others)

The practice of medicine calls first of all for a deeply human response by the physician to the cry of the patient for help,- what patients need most of all is the assurance that their own healing systems are beautifully designed to handle most of their complaints.
Franz Ingelfinger

To the point 3 ( in the series The wisdom of others)

 Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

To the point 2

To cure sometimes, to relieve often,to comfort always.

(Dr Edward Livingston Trudeau)

To the point:: the wisdom of others

I will follow the system which, according to my ability and judgement, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

(Hippocrates)