Shark Cartilage: Cancer Cure? There’s a new term that has entered the medical lexicon. The word is wellness. Hospitals and medical offices are incorporating this term into their mission statements, corporate names, business cards, medical conferences and other marketing materials. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation has appointed a Chief Wellness Officer, an intriguing fluffy title that does not clearly denote this individual’s role and function. This is deliberate, as the word wellness is designed to communicate a ‘feel good’ emotion, not a specific medical service. Just a click or two on Google will lead you into the wellness universe. Here’s a sampling. Institute of Sleep and Wellness Wellness Institute of America Naturopathic Wellness National Wellness Institute Physicians Health and Wellness Center Physicians Wellness Group There’s even a sponsored ad on Google where one can search for physicians, presumably trained in the medical specialty of wellness. I was dismayed
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