Visit 3 Ghosts right there in the exam room.
👻 THE GHOST OF PATIENT PAST We time-travel back to 7th grade. I ask them to visualize themselves at that age—when the world was their oyster. The kid who wanted to be an astronaut, an athlete, or an artist. I ask: "If that 12-year-old walked in here and saw you today—on 12 medications, immobile, and hurting—what would they say?" This isn't about shame; it's about Cognitive Dissonance. It reconnects them with their original spark and highlights the drift between who they wanted to be and who they became.
👻 THE GHOST OF PATIENT PRESENT This is the reality audit. Most patients view themselves as passive passengers in a broken vehicle. I flip the script. We look at the metabolic bankruptcy happening right now. It demands they take a hostile takeover of their own biology.
👻 THE GHOST OF PATIENT FUTURE This is the binary choice. I force a visualization of two distinct timelines 10 years from now.
Timeline A: You stay on this road. You are wheelchair-bound, dependent on nursing care, or gone.
Timeline B: You pivot today. You are mobile, vibrant, and playing with your grandkids. It is a stark, visceral fork in the road.
THE VERDICT: WAKING UP THE CEO Why do I do this? Because these three ghosts serve one purpose: To wake up the CEO of your own health.
You cannot outsource your biology to a doctor, an insurance company, or a spouse. You are the Chief Executive of your body. The Ghost of the Past provides your history; the Ghost of the Present provides your balance sheet; and the Ghost of the Future provides your forecast.
But only the CEO can make the executive decision to change direction.
I want to hear from you: As a patient, would this "Scrooge" approach motivate you to change, or would you find it too intense? And to my fellow providers—how do you break through the wall of denial when data fails?
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