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How I read a food label
I was thinking about food labels recently as I scanned yet another new food product at the grocery store. It's become something of a hobby. "Oh, second ingredient evaporated cane juice (AKA sugar) and then at the end 'natural' (my quotation marks) flavors." The verdict: processed food....
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Victory for patient empowerment
Consumers Could Get Test Results Themselves... Patients may soon be universally able to view their lab results thanks to a new rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services. This means getting access without permission or release by their providers. This is a victory toward...
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Local hospital’s fraud shows health care system’s ills
Just read an article about a local hospital and its parent company (a collection of mega-hospitals) being investigated for fraud. They allegedly have been overbilling Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance for millions of dollars more than the work that they did. What a shame. They will...
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Polypharmacy
Interesting case this afternoon. Lady was having major digestive spasms that prompted anxiety. Went to several different doctors and a workup at a major national medical center and told there was nothing wrong. Meanwhile she as started on 2 blood pressure medications for a high heart rate (from...
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Find a physician, not a general
"Superior doctors prevent the disease. Mediocre doctors treat the disease before evident. Inferior doctors treat the full-blown disease." Huang Dee Nai-Chan 2600 BC; 1st Chinese Medical Text. Not only does my work in integrative medicine have me on the front lines of big pharma-created...
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Obama IDs the key to healthcare reform!
"When it comes to food, one of the things that we are doing is working with school districts. And the child nutrition legislation is going to be coming up. We provide an awful lot of school lunches out there and -- and reimburse local school districts for school-lunch programs. Let's figure...
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Enlightening young minds
I was invited to the Ft. Wayne Family Medicine Residency today to give the noon conference talk on Integrative Medicine. I love talking to medical students and residents as they generally seem so hungry for changing medicine. To me it's important to show them some light in what often seems...
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The future of medicine
Spent the day in Boston with Hello Health. It's a new online based healthcare platform to allow physicians to practice medicine with high access using a Facebook-like connection between doctors and patients. They want to embrace the integrative medicine movement, so they are spending the day...
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Proof that antibiotics have a significant downside
Good Bacteria Keep the Immune System Primed to Fight Having healthy levels of bacteria in the gut keep the immune system ready for a fight. 70% of the immune system resides in the gut, so when taking oral antibiotics a significant shift in protection can occur. This is leading to what we will...
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New breast cancer screening recommendations
The United States Preventative Services Task Force is the authority on monitoring all the data and determining the most appropriate screening guidelines. The new breast cancer screening guidelines reflect the need to back off the monitoring for those at no additional risk because it often creates...
