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Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
"The magic of the electronic village is transforming health information. The mouse and keyboard have extended the stethoscope to the 500 million people now online." - Dr. Edward Creagan
The power of the medium inspires Dr. Edward Creagan as he searches for ways to share Mayo Clinic's vast resources with the general public.
Dr. Creagan, a Newark, N.J., native, is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and hospice medicine and palliative care. He has been with Mayo Clinic since 1973 and in 1999 was president of the staff of Mayo Clinic. Dr. Creagan, a professor of medical oncology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, was honored in 1995 with the John and Roma Rouse Professor of Humanism in Medicine Award and in 1992 with the Distinguished Mayo Clinician Award, Mayo's highest recognition. He has been recognized with the American Cancer Society Professorship of Clinical Oncology.
He describes his areas of special interest as "wellness as a bio-psycho-social-spiritual-financial model" and fitness, mind-body connection, aging and burnout.
Dr. Creagan has been an associate medical editor with Mayo Clinic's Web sites and has edited publications and CD-ROMs and reviewed articles.
"We the team of (the Web site) provide reliable, easy-to-understand health and wellness information so that each of us can have productive, meaningful lives," he says.
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Dec. 20, 2008
Reach out and touch someone
By Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
With profound skepticism, I recently attended a four-day program for effective communication skills. The program was targeted towards a corporate environment but many of the tactics and strategies were very much applicable to our personal lives. One of the most rewarding aspects of the program came during the last five minutes of the workshop. Let me explain.
At the close of the program, our facilitator shared with us a fascinating story. At this present time in history, there are undoubtedly thousands of individuals involved in workshops, focus groups, and seminars.
Advice is given; lists are handed out. If we simply hear these messages, the experience becomes a nice memory which dramatically fades away in the wink of an eye. I for one am hard pressed to recall any specifically valuable advice from workshops six months or a year ago.
But this was different. Our facilitator, who has given hundreds of workshops over many decades, shared with us that if we did not act on, yes, act on and embed into our daily lives some of the recommendations that we were given, the four-day program was essentially a vacation.
One of the dimensions of the program was to mend fences, offer an olive branch, or simply reach out with a word of encouragement and reconciliation to a family member, friend, or colleague. So, with some anxiety and apprehension, I did extend the handshake, I did extend the olive branch, and have achieved some closure and healing on some painful situations which dragged on far too long.
Now, am I completely unburdened from all of life's miseries? Obviously no, but at least I can look back upon these four days as having resulted in a concrete, palpable behavior which has helped reconcile some difficulties from the past.
So, does this make sense? Am I way off base and what would others share with us about some meaningful impact that programs, workshops, and seminars may have had for them?
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