4. Slowness Is a Clinical Intervention

Slowness is not laziness. In my clinic I have seen hundreds of patients who believed rest was a reward they had to earn.earn — high achievers, all of them, and every one sincerely surprised to be lying in a cardiac ward. They were wrong, and their hearts paid for the mistake. Rest is not a reward. It is a clinical intervention, as realmeasurable as any tablet I prescribe.prescribe, and the data behind it would surprise even my colleagues.