A basic error occurs when a diagnosis is based on insufficient data ie the doc jumps to conclusions. Sounds silly, but "premature closure" is a common source of diagnostic mistakes.
Health-care professionals are members of society and reflect our common culture. Students browsing the web to research university assignments read an average of one and a half lines of text per website. Is this in-depth engagement with the material or premature closure?
When a student comes up and asks me a question, I often get the impression that they've lost interest before I even start to answer.
We're drowning in a tsunami of "stuff": a glut of information on the web, social-media "friends", merchandise in our stores, homes, and heads - way too much - most of it irrelevant and nasty quality!
We need to simplify our lives, prioritize, slow down, and have deep, meaningful relationships with ourselves, a select few loved ones, our environment.
We can learn to live consciously - mindfully - if we wish to do so.
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