“I can’t believe you bought pop!” said the department secretary, as she helped me lug food to a party to celebrate the birth of a colleague’s son. The celebratory food: chocolate cake, clementines, grapes, nuts, milk, water–and pop. Usually I demonize pop. Once in residency, I gave a talk on obesity, and included a picture…
Health insurance is important. 50% of personal bankruptcies are due to healthcare costs. Cancer patients are 5 times more likely to delay therapy. 26,000 people die each year without it. Health care providers can ask three simple questions to screen for health insurance status: do you have health insurance? is it affordable? does it cover…
A giggle a day keeps the doctor away…
Fellow family physician (plus he’s a lawyer! with a masters in public health! my dream combo!) Colin Kerr MD, JD, MPH has been writing a great physician newsletter for years, and now he’s launching a new blog over at http://ckerrfprevolution.blogspot.com/. He advocates for healthy living, finds and explains the new studies that might change physician practice, and…
Block-bust-er \ˈbläk-ˌbəs-tər\ noun:something that is very large, expensive or successful 1. Big bombs used to break up entire city blocks in WW2 2. Broadway plays so successful they put other plays on the block out of business 3. Hollywood movies that gross more than $100million 4. Pharmaceutical drugs that gross more than $1billion. That’s right.…
Prevention Not Prescription 