The Quiet Progress of Healing Why Chronic Disease Doesn't Improve Overnight—and Why That's Okay Every week, patients come into my clinic hoping for the same thing: "Can you make me feel better as quickly as possible?" As a physician, I understand that hope. No one enjoys living with pain, fatigue, dizziness, swelling, or the countless symptoms that accompany chronic illness. But over the years, I have also learned something that patients often don't realize: Healing usually b

The Quiet Progress of Healing Why Chronic Disease Doesn't Improve Overnight—and Why That's Okay Every week, patients come into my clinic hoping for the same thing: "Can you make me feel better as quickly as possible?" As a physician, I understand that hope. No one enjoys living with pain, fatigue, dizziness, swelling, or the countless symptoms that accompany chronic illness. But over the years, I have also learned something that patients often don't realize: Healing usually b