Dr. Ellen Langer

Somebody else is controlling all that I'm eating.

I won't get a million phone calls in the middle of the night.

I have more time to myself.

I can read.

I can watch whatever movies I want to watch.

It's delightful.

Okay, so now you tell me I have to spend three more days in the hospital.

That's great.

More reading, more relaxing, more dieting, self-imposed, you know, and so on.

And so we would go through it again until they finally got it.

And when they did, the surgeries went better.

They needed fewer sedatives and pain relievers.

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

And even with respect to chronic illnesses, which I have a lot of information on in the book, as you recall, where you're given a diagnosis of a chronic illness.

And what that means to people is nothing I can do about it.

This is going to stay the same or get worse.

And all it means, the word chronic means, is the medical world doesn't have a solution yet.

It doesn't mean that there aren't solutions.

So we did some research where I take people who have all sorts of chronic illnesses.

And, you know, you recognize no symptom stays the same.