When my patients are not sure they can change their sweet diets, I ask if they would at least consider quitting soda pop. Most of them are surprised to hear how toxic it is. Years of sugar coating by the soda industry are not easy to overcome. Good luck to you. Artificially sweetened
Corollary: if you don’t believe in masks, are you prepared to accept, for you and your grandma, a cot in the hospital parking lot with a nurse’s aide squeezing an airbag to help you/her breathe? You may have pandemic and politics fatigue. I sure do. I will not blog about COVID-19 anym
Pandemic coverage still has many “holes” which allow surprise medical bills The AP (10/11, Murphy) reported that while “many” insurance companies “and the U.S. government have offered to pick up or waive costs tied to the virus, holes remain for big bills to slip through and surprise
OCT 2, 2020, SARA BERG, MEDSCAPE With the U.S. surpassing the tragic milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, here are some coronavirus tips that physicians wish patients would follow to mitigate the spread. 1. Wear a mask There has been a turning point in the U.S., with many states mand
We may disagree on the number of victims, how to prevent the infection and its seriousness, but there is one thing we cannot argue about: the effect it has on our overwrought health care workers/system. You can drive right now to your nearest hospital. You will find doctors, nurses an
Losing weight is a tough, deeply psychological/emotional undertaking. Often, the main cause of gaining weight is rooted in our subconscious, and related to childhood trauma at worst, stress as adults at best. So, do whatever it takes to lose weight. But some ways are not sustainable,
Brian Davis, MD, Family Medicine News, Doximity September 20th 2020 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tried to alleviate fears of flying during the pandemic at an event with airline and rental car executives.” The airplanes have just not been vectors when you see spread of the coronavirus,” D
This is an editorial published in the Salt Lake Tribune on 9/13/2020. I feel we are vaccinating too much. Our children are pin cushions. We blast them too early in life and there are significant side effects that are often brushed aside for economic and political reasons. And the comm
