About
Welcome to BeyondApples.Org, a dedicated preventive health care blog. There are many sites out there that talk about preventive health and especially dieting and exercise. This site is different because it addresses preventive health from the health care perspective. It is interested in talking about how modern medicine can help us prevent disease in addition to helping us treat disease. It reviews guidelines and groundbreaking trials in preventive health care, presents illustrative patient encounters, and most importantly serves as a forum for discussion and dialogue with you the reader.
BeyondApples.Org grew out of my passion for preventive health care. When most of us think about the miracles of modern medicine we picture heart bypass surgery, chemotherapy, and organ transplantation. But to me, while these advances in medicine are impressive, I marvel more at the idea that by taking an aspirin a day I can reduce my risk of a heart attack or by getting regular screening I can reduce my chances of developing colon cancer. Equally exciting is the fact that just like robotic surgery is the cutting edge of heart bypass surgery there is a cutting edge of preventive health care. Every week new studies come out that advance our understanding of disease prevention and new guidelines released that change the way we as doctors should prevent disease. At the same time, an idea is only worthwhile if people benefit from it. As preventive health care advances, the gap between the standard-of-care patients should receive and the care they actually receive widens. Across the spectrum of preventive care from cancer screening to nutrition counseling doctors and patients are not fully realizing the potential of preventive health care. Thus in addition to sharing my passion for preventive medicine, I started BeyondApples.Org to bridge these gaps and empower doctors and patients to better their health and the health of those around them.
As a brief introduction to myself, I am a recent medical graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and am currently a medical resident at the University of Chicago Hospital. My primary responsibilities are taking care of patients admitted to the hospital and maintaining a panel of general medicine patients. While my clinical training is in internal medicine, I have developed an interest in preventive health. I am the author of Stay Healthy At Every Age — What Your Doctor Wants You to Know, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press (http://www.stayhealthyateveryage.com).
- Shantanu Nundy, M.D.
I'm an internal medicine doctor passionate about keeping people healthy and out of the hospital. 
