- With Mayo Clinic oncologist
Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
read biographyclose windowBiography of
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.
Latest entries
- Stress and illness
Nov. 20, 2009
- Reach out
Nov. 7, 2009
- Focus on the finish line
Oct. 30, 2009
- Set limits
Oct. 24, 2009
- Head in the game
Oct. 17, 2009
Mayo Clinic Health Manager
Get free personalized health guidance for you and your family.
Get Started
About our e-newsletters
- Free e-newsletters
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- We do not share your e-mail address
Housecall, our weekly general-interest e-newsletter, keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics with timely, reliable, practical information, recipes, blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts and more. Our biweekly topic-specific e-newsletters also include blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts, and other useful information that will help you manage your health.
Housecall Archives
Mayo Clinic Housecall
Stay up to date on the latest health information.
What you get
- Free weekly e-newsletter
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- Recipes, tools and other helpful information
- We do not share your e-mail address
Stress blog
-
Sept. 25, 2008
From Wall Street to Main Street, financial crisis increases stress
By Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." So began "A Tale of Two Cities," the novel by Charles Dickens. Appropriate words for these difficult times on Wall Street as well. News reports clearly demonstrate the tremendous pressures on members of the financial communities. Not only are their assets unraveling but their sense of self worth and identity is unraveling.
We now understand that there is no such thing as the mind/body separation. Spiritual thinkers over thousands of years have told us that as we think so we become. Now, do not get me wrong. I am not suggesting we sit in a dark corner, focus on a candle, and wish away our woes. However, we are better able to weather these financial difficulties and uncertainties by taking care of ourselves physically and acknowledging that the essence of stress is a sense of powerlessness and a sense of being out of control. So, what we can control are our thoughts and our beliefs.
To ruminate over events about which we have no control can certainly set us up for all sorts of physical problems. A figure commonly quoted in medical literature is that approximately 70 percent to 80 percent of patients seeking care from primary care physicians or from internists have conditions either caused by or worsened by stress.
I do not suggest that there are simple solutions, but we would like to hear from you about how you're dealing specifically with the financial uncertainties. What happens on Wall Street certainly affects those of us on Main Street.
15 comments posted