Control Can Help Cancer Patients

There's an interesting article in the New York Times that is entitled "The Limits of Control." It discusses how, in order to be happy, one must have control over some important aspects of life. Lose control, and people sink into depression, stress and experience onset of disease.

The point of the article is that some people go too far in trying to control in their lives what should be uncontrollable. However, for the purposes of this article, I would like to stick to the original concept: control of some important aspects of a person's life is a good thing, even needed.

And so this, I believe, works for health care. The best treatments work if the patient is involved. Health care these days is optimal if the patient is involved in important decisions, and kept informed along the way. I think that's why informative classes, and formation of action plans, as well as group discussion groups, can be vital to a person's health care approach.