Wellbeing Checkup: Martial Arts to Destress

Dr. Alok Patel is one busy clinician. He is a physician, journalist, and producer, a special correspondent for ABC News, who regularly appears as an on-camera expert for several news outlets, and co-host of PBS/NOVA’s “Patentalogic” show, a digital series on the science of parenting. He is also a pediatric hospitalist at Columbia University, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Francisco. One of his ways to absorb the daily stressors of his very busy life? Martial arts, which he does whenever it is needed, including during the 4 minutes he has before a child is being helicoptered in from another location for emergency help.