Heart-Disease: Thinking outside the box concerning congestive heart failure.

“Think outside the box!” These words show up in commercials,
boardrooms, operating rooms and casual conversations. They have
become the calling card of the young creative hotshot trying to
secure an impressive position in a choice company. They mark the
inventive thinker and condemn the one doing everything in the same
old fashion. For the most part we live in a world where new is
better and change in and of itself is considered a good thing.

But there are some boxes in which our thinking seems to be locked. I
have in mind one particular box which conforms us to the idea that
health is a matter of fixing problems after they present themselves.
There is no doubt that medical science has advanced at a remarkable
rate. We are daily finding cures for diseases that have plagued us
for all history. But medical science is not the savior of careless
living. It is time to think outside the box of waiting until there
is an evident problem before we do anything about it. Or perhaps it
is more accurate to say that we should return to the box that says,
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”