How healthism and moralizing health are costing us too much

<p>In this episode, we will be joined by Kristen L. Cole, an assistant professor of communication studies. Kristen shares her personal journey with Crohn's disease and how the pressure to control her health led her to accumulate significant credit card debt. We will dive into the topic of healthism, the cultural and systemic factors that impact health, and the dangers of moralizing health. Kristen offers insights on how we can reframe our understanding of health and promote more compassionate and supportive attitudes towards each other's health journeys.</p> <p><a href= "https://www.sjsu.edu/socialsciences/faculty/rsca-faculty-bio/cole-kristen.php" target="_blank" rel="follow noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link= "exclude">Kristen L. Cole</a> is an assistant professor of communication studies.</p> <p>She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, "<a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/03/yoga-and-self-care-wont-cure-my-crohns-disease.html">Yoga and self-care won't cure my Crohn's disease</a>."</p> <p><a href="https://nuance.com/daxinaction"><img class= "alignnone wp-image-424286 size-medium" src= "https://www.kevinmd.com/wp-content/uploads/NuanceLogo_Horz_k-2-300x62.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="62" /></a></p> <p><em>The Podcast by KevinMD is brought to you by the <a href= "https://nuance.com/daxinaction">Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience</a>.</em></p> <p><em>Ambient intelligence augments human capabilities to make our lives easier. The applications are many, especially in health care. Ambient clinical intelligence is offsetting the most pressing challenges in health care today, such as burnout, physician shortages, physician and patient dissatisfaction, and underperforming financial outcomes, by applying the technology to clinical documentation. </em></p> <p><em>The Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience, or DAX for short, utilizes artificial intelligence and natural language processing to automatically document care. It securely listens to and captures the natural, clinician-patient encounter conversation un