Twenty-Five Percent: Dr. Wayne Jonas on Social Support, Cancer Survival, and the Medicine We're Not Prescribing

Twenty-five percent. That's how much longer cancer patients with high social support live compared to those with low social support. Not quality of life. Not comfort. Survival. "If you had a drug that increased your living by twenty-five percent, it would be on the docket immediately." ~ Dr. Wayne Jonas. It is not on the docket. It is not prescribed. It is not reimbursable. And Dr. Jonas has spent his career asking why. A physician, researcher, former director of the NIH Office of Alternative...