Thank you to everyone that has protested and spoke out following George Floyd's murder. Thank you to everyone that has fought for and continues to fight for exposing and destroying systemic racism. Thank you to those afflicted communities that respond to this injustice with passion, education, protest, and...
Think about the last time you needed medical advice for an illness or injury. How many treatment options did your doctor offer you? When I ask people that question, the most common answer is: one. Just one option. And that one option is usually a pharmaceutical treatment. Most people...
[to learn the beginning of the story, be sure to read the first post – Part 1: Time for Change] For the longest time, I never considered not having my own private practice, even though I knew I wasn’t happy. In fact, accepting and allowing that option to surface was fairly traumatic,...
[to learn the beginning of the story, be sure to read the first post – Part 1: Time for Change] Burnout has many definitions, but it’s commonly defined as the loss of enthusiasm for work, depersonalization (increasingly negative and cynical mindset), and a low sense of personal accomplishment. Physicians have one of the...
I don’t know how common it is to give up something that has been the single professional focus of your life. Maybe it happens more than I think. Maybe it doesn’t. Either way, it happened to me. For years I followed the path towards private practice. But whether it...
"Loneliness and social isolation are just as much a threat to longevity as obesity, smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being an alcoholic" as documented in a study done by Brigham Young University....
1) Start saving money with grocery store shopping. Shop the perimeters of the store where you will find delicious whole foods. This way you can ditch the processed, addictive foods that cost more. Don’t shop when you are hungry. Know what produce you can buy organic or not....
One of the first things I like to make clear to anyone starting to pay attention to what they eat is that fat is not evil. Let that sink in for a minute because if you were listening to the so called “expects” for the past 50 years,...
When is the last time you had great sleep for several nights in a row, or even one good night’s sleep? Sleep is crucial to your health; in fact, our survival depends on it. So much goes on in the body during sleep but one thing I like to...
