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The Biter Bit – They Want Me to Take Blood Pressure Medicines
When my doctor told me my blood pressure and cholesterol are too high, and I jokingly told him “that’s a problem, because my three favorite food groups are salt, fat and alcohol,”…
New Alzheimer’s Medicine: Trick or Treat?
This was my latest column for the Free Lance-Star on Sunday June 27th. The FDA’s approval of a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s Disease has prompted a lot of hope. But also…
From Emergency to Common Sense Healthcare.
Never coy about running my mouth, and as someone involved in providing primary care to an underserved community through the Moss Clinic, I was pleased to be asked to participate in a…
Planning for the End of Life Care YOU want.
Life – or perhaps I should say death – was so much easier in the old days. As end-of-life researcher Joanne Lynn puts it, life threatening illness would “strike without warning and…