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WHC Health Tips

• September 20, 2011 - I Think My Mind Is Going

  It’s fairly common, actually. You walk into a room suddenly befuddled, wracking your brain, desperate to remember just why you came to this room in the first place. Or you’re telling someone about a movie you just saw the night before, really enjoyed, and now you’re clawing at your cerebral cortex trying to extricate the title, the actor,... » read more

• September 13, 2011 - Welcome Casey Kelley, MD

  Finding Dr. Casey Kelley has been an 11-year project for me. That’s how long I’ve been scanning the horizon for the perfect holistically oriented MD associate. And believe me this project was no walk in the park. Overall, newly minted MDs avoid primary care specialties (family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics) because by choosing one... » read more

• September 6, 2011 - Lady Gaga, Madonna, Andy Warhol, and Me

  There’s an exhibit opening next month at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London entitled “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990.” You’re puzzled, I’m sure, by how a subject as confusing as Postmodernism could relate to a health tip, but it actually does, in a big picture sort of... » read more

• August 30, 2011 - La Vie Francaise

  With the World Health Organization ranking the United States 37th in “quality of healthcare to its citizenry,” a notch below Costa Rica but thankfully edging out Slovenia, perhaps it crossed your mind, as it did mine, how health care is delivered in the top-ranked country, ... » read more

• August 23, 2011 - Empty Nose Syndrome

  Never heard of it? Neither had I. Sounded more like a Sherlock Holmes story than a “condition” somebody could have. But there it was, written by the patient himself in the Reason For Visit section of our intake form. Before he actually walked into the examining room, I made a quick obeisance before my PC, fingers flying across the keys,... » read more

• August 16, 2011 - The Extraordinarily Persistent Patient

  Despite my admonishments to stay well if you want to avoid the multifarious problems of our health care system, sometimes--and through no fault of your own--you’ll get sick. Your best chance of emerging unscathed from whatever ails you is having what’s called a “self-limiting condition,” namely, one that goes away by itself, with or... » read more

• August 9, 2011 - Physicians as Morons

  I do know that title sounds judgmental, perhaps even harsh, but sometimes you wonder if there might not be a bevy of physicians who received their education online at the University of Phoenix, or their medical licenses by having a relative in... » read more

• August 2, 2011 - More Sleaze from Big Pharma

  I can appreciate you might be fatigued with this topic, but let’s face it: for virtually everyone, health care today means going to the doctor and coming home with a... » read more

• July 26, 2011 - Charcoal Grilling and Cancer: How to Reduce Your Risk

  First it was smoking (then asbestos and DDT) and now charcoal grilling. One after another, life’s little pleasures are yanked from us by their statistical associations with increased cancer risk. By now everyone’s heard about the significant connection between colorectal cancer and regular consumption of red meat (beef, pork, lamb) and... » read more

• July 19, 2011 - Can You Get Fried By An Airport Scanner?

  Ever since 2009, when that guy smuggled plastic explosives in his Jockey shorts and tried to blow up a plane on its way to Detroit, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has been pushing for full-body scanners at all... » read more