The Art of Healthy Living
The Art of Healthy Living
Someone I know is dying. It’s a rude fact to even write on this page. It is devastatingly unwanted, despised, heavy, and incredibly unfair. I do suppose we are all dying, but sometimes a doctor gives an expiration date and you are forced to stop ignoring that you have one. …
As a doctor, I know that my field of medicine is both glorious and simultaneously fallible. We don’t understand everything about the bodies that our souls carry around, and that can be humbling to us. At the same time we understand a lot. Certainly we know a lot more than …
Wednesday was a day full of caring for health in obvious and usual ways and in ways that might not be fully appreciated. In the morning I went to the doctor for my annual check up. We discussed “being healthy” in the way of traditional health system medicine. This is …
I’m back from vacation! I took the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine with me on vacation, but it’s time to get back into the regular home routine! And that’s how I practice Lifestyle Medicine -the 6 pillars-just for today!
Some times life hands you sunny days and peaceful times. Ahhh…those are so nice. *sigh*. Other times, like today, life hands you clouds and hurricanes, political intensity, young adult college applications, mid life hormones, and work meetings on zoom. It is days like these that I purposefully lean into the …
I am a physician who was raised and trained in the traditional medical system of my time. As medical students and resident doctors, we learned about diseases, drugs, and procedures. We perfected how to take a history from our patients using open-ended questions that still pointed to the pertinent positives, and how to do a physical exam to allow our …
I have spent a lifetime waiting for peace. Working for it, wrangling it, and negotiating with it. It’s been a lot like a laughing toddler slipping from my grasp and running ahead as I tried to wrestle it back into place. I was positive that if I got into medical …