I keep telling everyone “it’s been like a death in the family.” But my take is that it was a preventable death. I liken it to a diabetic who dies for lack of insulin. Not because insulin hasn’t been invented. Not because no one knows that’s the right treatment. But because there’s no money to…
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About: Dr. Patrick Neustatter
Recent Posts by Dr. Patrick Neustatter
Forget the Flowers . . . . . . Where Have All the Doctor’s Gone?
If you’ve tried to make an appointment with a primary care doctor recently, the challenge will make you understand why I was leaning on the two young women I was working with at the Moss Clinic. Why I was trying to persuade them to be primary care doctors themselves. One a foreign medical graduate from…
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“I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be”
You aren’t to know, but, appropriately, I am writing this on Valentine’s Day. Appropriate because I am writing about love – which you might think a little squishy – but it has relevance to your health. I am inspired to write about love in part because our new minister at the Fredericksburg Unitarian Fellowship, David…
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Pharmaceutical and Food Titans at War
I see it as something of a battle of the Titans. The pharmaceutical industry coming up with glucagon-like-peptides (GLP-1 agonist) such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Trulicity. They stop people craving processed, addictive foods and this seems to have put the food industry in a panic. A report by Tomas Weber on the New York Times…
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