Patients don’t just look to their health care providers for medications, they also turn to for wisdom in times of crisis. Dr. Ellen Lee and colleagues at the University of California San Diego speculate that wisdom could be a vaccination against several of the epidemics that continue to rise in Western society: social isolation, loneliness, suicide, and opioid abuse.

Lee EE, Bangen KJ, Avanzino JA, et al. Outcomes of Randomized Clinical Trials of Interventions to Enhance Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Components of Wisdom: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. 2020;e200821. [Link]

Resources: The San Diego Wisdom Scale

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