December 2011
2 posts
1st of my "That sucks" factoid entries...
The typical supermarket apple has been off the tree for 14 months.
Grant Harrison: The Healthcare timebomb →
grantrharrison:
The average Californian family of 4 costs $18,000 per year for health insurance. This cost is increasing 9 percent per year. By 2020, it will be $40,000 per year! Who will be able to afford this? Not Californian companies and certainly not individuals.
Why is it so expensive? Because everyone in…
“A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness...”
– Wendell Berry (via medicalstate)
November 2011
5 posts
WatchMust watch this
“The government cannot force you to buy things. It can only tax you, draft you,...”
– Stephen Colbert (via soupsoup)
October 2011
2 posts
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– http://www.macstories.net/roundups/inspirational-steve-jobs-quotes/ (via centraldogma)
September 2011
5 posts
Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC: Thank... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Four years ago today, I started my practice in Williamsburg that really changed my life in an unfathomable way. And four years later, today, I’m at Google Zeitgeist speaking about my story. This morning’s speaking schedule went like this:
Eric Schmidt, ex-CEO of Google
Robert Reich, Secretary…
Way to go, Jay! Glad I cranked the hamster wheel of patients and jetted up...
Epigenetics
Our foods can modulate our genetic expression.
“Generally treatments that cost more than $40,000 to prevent an (one) event are...”
– Bruce Ettinger MD
“Genes load the gun, environment pulls the trigger”
– Institute for Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine
I’m taking the foundational module of the Functional Medicine course in Baltimore this week.
It’s a mix of integrative and conventional medicine AND it emphasizes evidence based medicine.
It’s amazing what can happen when we team up with our patients and map out the “matrix” of their health history.
IMHO it’s a better option than writing prescriptions...
August 2011
2 posts
The health risks and benefits of cycling in urban... →
mikailov:
// Key Stat: The new program in Barcelona (around since 2007) prevents 12 deaths a year.
Urban bike sharing programs improve city dwellers’ lives by offering a convenient way to get around, exercise, and reduce pollution. But could cycling instead of driving could actually save lives? So says science. According to a study published earlier this summer by the British Medical...
Medical Singularity: In Dermatology, Less is More →
mikailov:
Lessons from Dermatology -
Use fewer skin products, never more.
There is only one cream in this world that is proven to smoothen wrinkles (“anti-aging”). It is called Tretinoin.
And there is only one way to prevent wrinkles… Sunblock with TitaniumOxide or ZincOxide and SPF > 30. Use…
July 2011
3 posts
June 2011
2 posts
“Health is not a commodity. Risk factors are not disease. Aging is not an...”
– David Loxtercamp, author of A Measure of Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor, as read in his interview with NPR’s Liane Hansen. (via mikailov)
“But I wouldn’t say that we (at The Future Well) look at health from just a...”
– Interview: Dr. Jay Parkinson | Made by Many
It’s a bit of a long one, but if you’d like to dive in…
(via jayparkinsonmd)
Must also read Evan Freedman’s comment.
May 2011
3 posts
Healthcare costs: Doctors create too many patients... →
This article nails it. Props to Gilbert Welch MD. I also recommend his other book, “Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe not and Here’s Why”.
Now if only we can make his ideas mainstream…
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 1969 (via white-coat)
April 2011
6 posts
“This book champions the skills of clinical diagnosis founded on the cornerstones...”
– Dominic Slade’s review on Cope’s Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen (21st ed) referred to By Dr Centor from DB’s Medical Rants blog.
High touch, low-tech beats high-tech, low-touch
Watchinteresting. but does it really work. worth checking out
number needed to treat: Do we have too many... →
numberneededtotreat:
Dr Wes equating clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) with the ever-growing tax code
The short answer is: probably. A more complete answer, however, is that we have too many low quality CPGs that are published in unusably long diatribes in all corners of the medical literature. We don’t need…
Boring thing you should know about of the day... →
jayparkinsonmd:
Part of Obamacare is this concept called Accountable Care Ogranizations:
An ACO is a network of doctors and hospitals that shares responsibility for providing care to patients. In the new law, an ACO would agree to manage all of the health care needs of a minimum of 5,000 Medicare beneficiaries for at least three years.
The goal of these is to essentially get a dedicated...
publichealthpolicy:
The Cost of Obesity to US...
March 2011
4 posts
HEALTH is
nursling:
… a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
as per the WHO.
Life is like business. It's 20 percent what... →
ifindkarma:
That secret to life I tweeted from Daymond John on Shark Tank.
It reminded me that 80 percent of success is showing up.
And that happiness is correlated with success. Additionally…
”True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals,” Csikszentmihalyi said. “Without…
Bike-share firm wants to harness power of offsets... →
Don’t forget the benefits of physical exercise.
“Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who...”
– Seth Godin
February 2011
10 posts
Watch
Doctor offers 'concierge care' with smaller price... →
I’m not sure the academics quite get it.
Is Genetics Destiny?
Is the information in genes a BLUEPRINT for future conditions/disease?
Or is it more like a RECIPE, the outcome a little different each time.
(hint: it’s the latter, almost all the time)
“About two thousand forty-year-old women need to be screened over ten years for...”
– Overdiagnosed, by Gilbert Welch MD
A realistic look at the "Rich Doctor" Myth. →
cranquis:
Not to scare off all you pre-med/med students… but this is worthwhile info to know when faced with the political and media attacks, based on myths about “All doctors drive a Porsche, own a yacht, and make too much money”… :)
Cancer and media and marketing
Annual lung cancer death is more common than annual deaths from breast + prostate + melanoma + thyroid + colon cancer combined.
Do you think the marketing media accurately portrays this?
“If you don’t need treatment, you can’t be helped by it.”
– H Gilbert Welch MD
“75% of our healthcare spending is on chronic diseases linked to diet. That’s...”
– Michael Pollan today on Oprah
(via publichealthpolicy)
January 2011
9 posts
“Nutrition arguments are almost invariably about single nutrients taken out of...”
– Marion Nestle in What to Eat
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“Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables… Go easy on junk...”
– What to Eat by Marion Nestle
Seth's Blog: Eight Lessons from the life and work... →
jayparkinsonmd:
He bootstrapped himself. A scrawny little kid at 15, he decided to change who he was and how he was perceived, and then he did. The deciding was as important as the doing.
He went to the edges. He didn’t merely open a small gym, a more pleasant version of a boxing gym, for instance. Instead, he created the entire idea of a health club, including the juice bar. He did this 70...
Active Voice: Some Potential Benefits of Sprint... →
Suggests achievement of high fitness levels with much less training time.
“Ever get the feeling that medicine has a circular history?
2000 B.C. - Here,...”
– (via grantrharrison)
Grant is my business partner in our firm, The Future Well. I encouraged him to start a blog using tumblr. It’s awesome, mostly for all that British humour. (via jayparkinsonmd)
The basics are so essential, effective, and affordable….
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