Medical Meditation: Say Om Before Surgery

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Conventional medicine will keep breaking new ground in treatment and prevention, yet often the most effective solutions are found in the medicine cabinet of the mind. In one study, meditating 15 minutes twice daily reduced physician visits over a six-month period and saved the health-care system $200 a patient. Sometimes the best things in life are free.

Dr. Oz is the director of Columbia Presbyterian's Heart Institute

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