The Surgeon General of the United States has made emotional well-being one of his priorities  and spoke about its importance at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2016. Physicians must take a holistic approach to patients by caring for physical, psychological, and social health. To that end, they need to become aware of the importance of emotional medicine in order to help their patients decrease and manage negative feelings that can damage their health and teach them to enhance the positive feelings that can prevent and help heal illness.
The Surgeon General of the United States made emotional well-being one of his priorities in 2012 and spoke about its importance at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2016. 
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Physicians must take a holistic approach to patients by caring for physical, psychological, and social health. To that end, they need to become aware of the importance of emotional medicine in order to help their patients decrease and manage negative feelings that can damage their health and teach them to enhance the positive feelings that can prevent and help heal illness.