Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
“Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called “health literacy.” It” — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism,… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future. — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
“While it is a convenient construct to divide hope into a cognitive and an affective component, the two are tightly coupled. Feelings and emotions mold logical thinking and eliberate decision making...True hope, then, is not initiated and sustained by completely erasing the emotions, like fear and anxiety, that are often its greatest obstacles. An equilibrium needs to be established, integrating… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share
“or she would choose the treatment option that the experts saw as “best,” in this case taking the medication. But in the Dartmouth study,… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
There is an authentic biology of hope. Belief and expectation - the key elements of hope - can block pain by releasing the brain's… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform. — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
“Despite education and knowledge and experience, when you are the patient--suffering, confused, and despairing--it is very, very hard to take matters into your own… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
“Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share
False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
“One of the difficulties I experienced in trying to learn about the biology of emotions was the definition of terms...How would [Prof. Richard Davidson], as an experimental psychologist, deconstruct [hope]? "I understand hope as an emotion made up of two parts: a cognitive part and an affective part. When we hope for something, we employ, to some degree, our cognition,… — Jerome Groopman Copy Share
