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by Victor S. Sierpina, MD, ABIHM
“When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.”
Lao Tsu
In a recent issue of Academic Medicine, editor Steven L. Kanter, MD, spoke about the value of “case studies that are analytic, penetrating, that illuminate fundamental precepts and concepts, and that reveal new avenues for research or theory development, and have the potential to broaden and deepen knowledge and understanding in a way that might not be available otherwise.” (1) Read More
by Victor Sierpina, MD, ABIHM
Our society doesn’t really contribute to healthy sleep. Our staccato, frenzied pace, overstimulation with media, caffeine, and nocturnal lights all break the natural rhythms of the body that are conducive to good sleep. Read More
Posted by Nancy Sudak, MD, ABIHM
We’d like to offer this space as a forum to discuss clinical pearls from our most recent Review Course, held November 6-11th, 2011 in St. Petersburg, FL. Please take a moment to offer your comments on pearls of wisdom you experienced at the conference!
To begin:
Dave Rakel, MD, in his lecture, “The Clinician Effect” challenged us with the statement that “The practitioner is more powerful than the pills we prescribe.” In a study that Rakel and his colleagues conducted in 2009, both the duration and severity of the common cold were reduced in patients...
(This article was originally published in Holistic Primary Care)
Women with breast cancer often experience severe joint pain as a consequence of treatment with aromatase inhibitors like Tamoxifen. Researchers in Barcelona suggest that vitamin D supplementation can prevent or at least reduce the pain. 
This is important because severe arthralgias often limit a woman’s willingness to complete tamoxifen treatment.
Daniel Prieto-Alhambra and colleagues at the Hospital del Mar, studied a cohort of 290 breast cancer patients undergoing treatment with Tamoxifen or another of...
by Nick Jacobs, FACHE
While serving as a hospital administrator for over twenty years, I was aware of numerous people who had died in the emergency room because they had no insurance, had not yet qualified for Medicaid and were terrified that the cost of care would force them to live on the street. Consequently, they waited too long to come in for treatment, and they died.
Modern Healthcare’s August 22nd edition has listed the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2011. (Somehow they’ve missed me again.) They’ve listed Republican ...
by Wendy Warner, MD, ABIHM
At a time when the lines between education and advertising are becoming increasingly blurred, in steps the brave new world of social media. Facebook, the major player in social media, represents essentially a large country in terms of those involved in its communications on a daily (hourly!) basis. Using this medium, folks can share information, “get the word out” and connect on many levels. Businesses are also hopping on board, using the forum for easy advertising. Read More
by Scott Shannon, MD, ABIHM
Conventional health care has ignored spirituality for far too long. Integrative medicine acknowledges the crucial importance of our spiritual beliefs and the dramatic influence they exert in our health and well-being. The foundation of holistic medicine and it’s newer cousin, integrative medicine, builds on the concept of interconnected body-mind-spirit. What this means is that our body, our mind and our spirit are indivisible and inter connected. Conventional health care suffers because it wrongly assumes that one can provide comprehensive health care to the body without recognition given to the influence of mind and spirit. Likewise, modern...
By Mimi Guarneri, M.D., ABIHM
This post was first published online at the Atlantic magazine, in response to an article by David H. Freedman in the July/August edition, “The Triumph of New Age Medicine.” See that article at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-triumph-of-new-age-medicine/8554/
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by Robert Anderson, MD, ABIHM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 36,000 to 41,000 persons die from influenza during each flu season. Infected with flu viruses, hundreds of thousands experience illness and loss of productive work time each year, leading to 300,000 hospitalizations and healthcare expenditures of $ 10 billion yearly. Public health authorities therefore urge wide-scale administration of influenza vaccines which are prepared yearly to include the most likely flu viruses the CDCP believes will be the most likely offenders in a given flu season. Read More
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ABIHM Board of Directors Member Daniel Friedland, MD Speaks on Wellness on Capitol Hill
ABIHM Board of Directors Member Daniel Friedland MD, CEO of SuperSmartHealth, joined wellness activist, Mariel Hemingway and Sallie Fraenkel from SpaFinder on Capitol Hill recently to meet with Representative Joe Pitts, Chair of the Health Committee, to promote the Wellness Week Pledge: 7 simple, powerful and evidence-based steps to optimize health and wellness. The components of the Wellness Week Pledge include the following: