Building away from humanity

It was 8am, I stopped by the Fred Meyer's store to purchase a few items for my son's lunches this week. As I walked out of the store, I was greeted with a vast empty parking lot. That morning on my way to take my son to school, there was an equally sized empty building up for lease with another generous parking lot. As I drove home, pulling onto the I-5 south corridor was a much smaller space with tents and a large array of trash. 

I have always had a fascination for the effective use of space, what I saw was that we had been building our nation not for humanity, but for large cars, and the next big thing that was going to peddled as the ideals of living. 

Just like in medicine, towering hospitals, brand new clinic spaces, but long wait times and 5-minute encounters that don't leave you feeling healthier or stronger, or better...rarely anyway. I hear there are really incredible places of healing. 

So, is time for a little revolution? How do we take back our health and empower one another to do the same? That's why I'm so in love with the idea of a direct primary care practice and bringing back hour long home visits. 

Space, community, health these are interlinked. 

Caring for that space and its people, that is health at its finest. 

We have strayed. It is easy to stray. 

Ask me if I could do something other than medicine, what would it be? City planning. 

Balancing capitalism with good governance. Using foresight and hindsight to create and revise and recreate.

Stopping and investing not because of some grant deadline but because it takes time to heal so we invest in people, not projects, we invest to empower, so that each and every one one of us can reach our truest, deepest level of purpose. 

That's what I want to help create.