Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
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And second of all, no one's making a ton of money from wellness.
There's no big corporation like Pfizer going to make a lot of money from wellness.
Med schools aren't going to make a lot of money from wellness.
Hospitals are going to lose money from wellness.
So you don't have the, you know, push on the wellness thing.
And honestly,
The answer that there are six simple things stuck with me, but I wasn't satisfied that we couldn't have a movement in that direction.
And it's sort of not at the back of my brain, you might put it.
And then, honestly, I read one of the books on wellness that are in the back behind me on my bookshelf, and it made me pissed off beyond belief.
I'm happy to say the book, but basically heavy focus on exercise, less on food, less on sleep.
And that was it.
And I'm like, this is just wrong.
This is just the, of course, exercise important.
Food's really important.
Sleep's important, but it's not the whole universe and it's missing key elements.
And
The consequence of being angry and pissed off, if you're an Emanuel, and the time was the end of the semester.
And so I literally, in the next two and a half, three weeks, sat down and scribbled out
the sort of first draft of this book.
And I was like so mad and everything that I had understood just came down.