A New York-based artist-slash-engineer is taking a typical visit to the doctor’s office and turning it on its head. According to the New York Times:
“Dr. [Natalie] Jeremijenko, an Australian artist, designer and engineer, invites members of the public to the clinic to discuss personal environmental concerns like air and water quality. Sitting at the consultation desk, she also offers them concrete remedies or ‘prescriptions’ for change, much as a medical clinic might offer prescriptions for drugs.”
Until profound legislative and social changes occur, Dr. Jeremijenko’s clinic serves as a place for people to act now to improve their local environment, from installing “butterfly gardens” in no-parking zones to halt storm-water runoff, to using solar energy to power LED lights. This kind of prescription for change is an idea well worth emulating.
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Why aren’t all doctors doing this? It’s common sense!
Shouldn’t this be the first line of treatment– before– the prescription drugs? For thousands of years we survived with out prescription drugs, only recently has the medical profession crutched themselves with these half-baked solutions.
To all of you out there: if your doctor doesn’t talk to you about lifestyle, diet, and exercise with true, genuine concern, find another doctor. Dr. Jeremijenko has got something here, and she thinks bigger than her pocketbook.
Thanks for the link to the article, too.