Healthcare is overwhelmingly devoted to disease intervention rather than prevention, yet so much of what we treat is preventable.
After years of working to achieve happiness and success, you risk losing everything to a preventable illness or injury. Changing behavior doesn't have to be difficult, it's just difficult to maintain. We need to inspire clear goals and find our unique motivations for a healthy lifestyle. Visualize yourself in an emergency room “near-death experience” to emphasize the reality of the health risks we ignore, before it's too late. Then share it with a friend who needs motivation . . . and we all need a little motivation sometimes.
Dr Rasler is an Atlanta emergency physician experienced in behavior modification and disease prevention. Motivating healthy behavior during a brief patient encounter has been a focus of his clinical care. Read more at: www.DrRasler.com .
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
