Endeavors magazine: Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

It’s good for the docs, too

I do outreach communications for a department in the School of Medicine. I shared the article "Why Be Happy?" with several colleagues: psychologists, our development director, and others who use mindfulness meditation. In our interdisciplinary approach to patient recovery, we witness the benefits of positive solution-thinking, not only for our patients but for ourselves.

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features:

a life at the bench: in the 1930s, oliver smithies was tinkering with telescopes and radio-controlled boats. last october, the nobel committee called. [people]
the bug zappers: busting bacteria’s resistance to drugs. [biochemistry]
mites among the machines: day and night, children toiled in north carolina’s textile mills. [history]
tiny steps on a tightrope: mapping the structure of an ancient protein. [chemistry]
meet the bucket brigade: the J-school rescues a paper in peril. [journalism]
guatemala city’s dirtiest secret: a volunteer steers scavengers’ kids out of the dump. [public health]
why be happy? how positive emotions do us good. [psychology]
the tangled roots of OCD: can science sort out obsessive-compulsive disorder? [health & med.]
where the trail has led: carolina’s stories of american indians. [social sciences]
in hot water: coral reefs lose their cool. [marine sciences]
the magic man: daniel wallace became a big-time novelist one sentence at a time. [literature]
the reasons for rebellion: the real causes of unrest in iran. [political science]
the mouse mess: have we bred some of the medical value out of lab mice? [health & med.]

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