Tag Archives: health care

From Diseases to Behaviors: A New Way of Looking at Health

Posted on March 8, 2011 by admin

What is the leading cause of death in the United States? Heart disease? Cancer? Smoking. Smoking? Yes, depending on how you ask the question. In the early 90s, McGinnis and Foege turned the age-old question of what people die of … Continue reading →

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Forgetting to Counsel Patients About Their Chronic Diseases

Posted on October 4, 2010 by admin

The recently instituted 30-hour-shift “work restrictions” placed on medical residents have created a need for “dayfloat” services to safeguard potentially unsafe handoffs in patient care and help residents adhere to duty hour limits. The past two weeks I’ve been the dayfloat … Continue reading →

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A Food-Based Approach to Eating

Posted on September 12, 2010 by admin

The science of nutrition is changing and not in the way you might expect. After years of “reductionist” thinking — where food has been viewed as the sum of its parts – a call to treat food as food has … Continue reading →

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Competing on Outcomes, The Way to True Health Care Reform

Posted on July 17, 2010 by admin

On my drive in to work this past week I came across this: a bus-side advertisement for a local hospital (sadly, not mine) claiming that it was “home to the city’s best transplant outcomes.” Normally I drive right by these … Continue reading →

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Video Lecture

Posted on May 3, 2010 by admin

This past week I’ve been putting together a powerpoint presentation on preventive health care. The talk is a summary of much of the work I’ve done in prevention over the past three years, articulated in a way that makes it … Continue reading →

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