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The Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku—literally translated as “forest bathing”—is based on a simple premise: immerse yourself in the forest, absorb its sights, sounds, and smells, and you will reap numerous psychological and physiological benefits. “Nature heals me with a mysterious power,” the photographer Yoshinori Mizutani recently said. Born in the countryside, surrounded by mountains, Mizutani told me that shinrin-yoku has always been a part of his daily life. In Tokyo, where he now lives and works, he takes his camera to the city’s parks and engages in a kind of photographic forest-bathing practice. In a new series of kaleidoscopic images created for us, his communion with nature starts at an almost cellular level.

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Bless this man

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Appreciate those who don’t give up on you.

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I can’t believe it’s taken movies this long to realize one woman could be both of these things. (gif sources: @dceumovies and @cartersharon)

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this is literally James Cameron’s nightmare. hahahaha

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Canada - Moraine Lake by Csaba Diglics

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On being a patient

Someone once told me that the best doctors have also been patients. This, I believe, is very true.

It helps build empathy when you send your patient for a test. You can better explain what certain tests feel like, or help dispel fear about that CT scan. You can better relate to taking medication every day and understand how/why people forget doses.

I am 28, just shy of 29. When I was born, I had a congenital deformation of both of my legs where they were internally rotated at the knees by 90°. The surgeon who fixed them said that it was a chance I wasn’t going to walk normally, but that fortunately never panned out.

I used to have numerous incidents of reactive airway disease. I was hospitalized usually twice a year from it when I was in primary school. There was one case where I was at my pediatrician’s office and had a coughing spell so serious that I went apneic. I was about 7 at the time. I remember starting to cough and then being in an ambulance. I don’t remember the interim where I turned pale and cyanotic per my mother.

When I was 15, I discovered a lump in my left testis. Freaked me out, understandably. Fortunately it was a varicocele that was easily repaired. But then I developed a hydrocele that had to be repaired. Then I had a surgical site infection. That was brutal.

At 21, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. I had gained 40 pounds in a matter of 3 months. My TSH was 33. I have been on replacement hormone ever since. Still haven’t lost that weight sadly.

In short, I understand the fear in my patients. I have had nearly every test a male could have done. I take daily medication (when I remember).

Being a patient can be very scary, but having true empathy for your patients can be just the thing they need to get them through.