"Fast Medicine saved my life, Slow Medicine allowed me to live it."
My Mother's Daughter: A Caregiver's Cry for Slow Medicine
A Memoir by Tess Giannotti
Our journeys through fast and slow medicine
Slow Medicine
Slow Medicine originated in Italy in 2000 from the Slow Food and Living Movement. It is not a particular system of medical care but rather a mindset change that advocates a collective social awareness. It is being researched at Harvard and the University of Chicago and has taken hold in Europe. According to Victoria Sweet, M.D. in Slow Medicine, The Way to Healing the number one component Slow Medicine offers patients is time spent with their physician. Doctors repeatedly report that this is what they need to better serve their patients. Slow Medicine can be applied to almost any system of care.