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Immune Support For The Holidays

Immune Support For The Holidays

Here are several things you can do to help support your immune system come this holiday season.

…Pick and choose the most important holiday events. You cannot be there for everything as you need down time so get some rest. It is also ok to just say that everything is too much and that you need to stop and relax for a bit…

Holding Up The Sky

Holding Up The Sky

...One day, an elephant saw a hummingbird lying on its back with its tiny feet up in the air. “What are you doing?” asked the elephant. The hummingbird replied, “I heard that the sky might fall today, and so I am ready to help hold it up, should it fall.” The elephant laughed cruelly. “Do you really think,” he said, “that those tiny feet could help hold up the sky?...”

TV Ads Selling Junk

TV Ads Selling Junk

Need to sell your bad food, and wasteful products? Use Television. Problem solved.

...However, we recently started watching a new TV show online, but from a free service, that contains commercials, and I was amazed by the advertisements. Perhaps I had forgotten how bad they are, or just about them in general. These ads were for crappy food, drugs, and even toxic cleaning supplies...

Do You Help Your Medical Team To Communicate?

Remember to tell us, your doctors, what medication you are taking.

...Labs that I do with you I hope you are sharing with your PCP, and vice versa. When your PCP puts you on a new medication then I need to know what it is so that I make sure what I’m prescribing for you does not interact with that other medication negatively...

 

How Do You Communicate Online?

How Do You Communicate Online?

It is not as simple as saying that online communication is a good, or bad thing. As it is not really a "black & white" issue.

Modern technology, for better or worse, is here to stay. Some forms of technology help us to stay more connected while other forms destroy that connection. I cringe when I hear my patients tell me that they have to text their children within the same house to let them know that dinner is ready because that is the only way their kids will respond...

The Dreaded Todo List

The Dreaded Todo List

Todo Lists Are Great! Except When They're Not.

...[They] a great way for my husband and I to keep track of things that we need to do, and need to get at stores. So in a way, it is an extension of communication between us. It is also a place where we have listed our short, and long term goals. There are many ‘todo’ apps available for every cell phone platform. I find that they come in quite handy at times, but do have their drawbacks...

A New Year, A New Website, And New Goals!

Season's Greetings To All My Patients And Friends!

...And speaking of new things, I'm excited to announce that my practice has a new website (as I'm sure you've noticed by now)!