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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. 28, 2007
Turn off the gadgets, tune in each other
By Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
As the holiday season slowly winds down, I hear patients and colleagues express a sense of relief that the expectations, the planning, and the demands of this season are now over … at least for another year. The holiday season has become big business and some retailers start the holiday frenzy in September.
At a wonderful Christmas gathering with our family, a beloved sister-in-law shared a fascinating story. She and her family were vacationing at a remote beach along the North Shore of Lake Superior. A few hundred yards down the beach was a family of about six to eight young couples with children and, yes, the obligatory golden retrievers and Labrador retrievers.
It was a festive scene of families simply enjoying each other. But wait … there was something missing. The scene was unnatural. The scene was almost un-American. Not one person had a cell phone! Not one person had a Blackberry or a Trio.
On the way to the parking lot, my sister-in-law asked one of the women about the absence of technology, and it was made crystal clear that when this group meets the phones are left in the car. If there is an emergency, obviously the phones can be retrieved, but there is a shared collective effort that this time together will not be wasted by the intrusion of modern technology.
This point was also raised during a Christmas service where the minister talked about the epidemic of "intermittent partial attention." While we are on the phone, we are catching up on e-mail. While we are listening to our partner, we also have one ear on the television. Yes, the ancient sages were right. Stay in the moment, focus on the day, and we can clearly savor the goodness, the peace, and the joy in each waking moment.
This is also a resounding message from the members of our digital community as well. The past is over; the future may never come; so let's put our energies right where they belong, in the precious present.
And what can each of us do to be present, to be engaged and to listen to our families, colleagues and friends?
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