Jason Jones

“Ours is an increasingly complex society that, having
reached something of a zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, has been progressively
devaluing human capital. More and more, people are finding their
life courses challenging, so challenging that such predicaments as the next
backache are more likely to prove “chronic” and disability schemes more
likely to offer the only option.”
― Nortin M. Hadler, Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

“Grief is this sweet little window where you're really tender and where you're setting up this relationship with the loved one who gets to live within you going forward.”
― Claire Bidwell Smith, Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

“The majority of the “health-care dollar” expended in the United States does not benefit patients. So many highticket items that are trumpeted as the triumphs of U.S. medicine are little more than a scam.16 Spine surgery for regional low back pain has earned this ignominy. The first priority for reform in the care of the health of the American is to stop underwriting the profitably useless. We have the science to do so.”
― Nortin M. Hadler, Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society

“Human capital denotes more than a meritocracy. Valuing human capital requires a philosophy of life that tolerates lapses, empathizes with vicissitudes, and countenances failure. Valuing human capital recruits the mind of the poet as much as that of the economist. With this as my lantern, regional low back pain as the object lesson, and a good deal of humility, I will suggest a transformation from a welfare state to an enabling state that values human capital. For this transformation to stand a chance, some of the current fortress institutions need to be assaulted.”
― Nortin M. Hadler, Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society