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by Victor S. Sierpina, MD, ABIHM
This book is an autobiography of the soul of Dr. Lee Lipsenthal in which he describes both his living and dying. Lee was a well known holistic physician whose life work evolved from being an internist in private practice, to being a researcher with Dean Ornish’s prevention programs, and finally an internationally known presenter on creating a balance in a medical professional life. 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
(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 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
by Nick Jacobs, FACHE
When Health Affairs released a first ever study on geographic variances in Medicaid spending on July 7th, it was a new twist on transparency that is just the beginning of what will become a detail by detail expose’ of care and treatment of patients in the United States. Just imagine a few years from now when every record is electronic and every detail will be instantly available to the government. Like this variance report, we will begin to see the good, the bad and the ugly of how medicine is practiced in this country. HOW DO YOU...
By Carol Bowman, MD, ABIHM
An old picnic table sitting behind a temporary trailer serving as a military treatment facility health clinic next to a noisy dripping external air conditioning unit…who would suspect this table covered in bird droppings to become a sacred healing space for women from completely diverse backgrounds? This sacred circle includes the 50yo civilian physician working her first year as a contractor in the clinic, the two 50-something nurses who have served in the pediatrics clinic for two decades, one long divorced, the other long married, the 46yo Puerto Rican retired military nurse working and finishing her...
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Roger L. Greenlaw MD FACP/G ABIHM
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ABIHM President, Scott Shannon, MD, Interviews Jamie Harvie
The following blog entry is the beginning of a series of interviews between the ABIHM and various guest thought leaders. This month, ABHIM Board President, Scott Shannon, MD, interviews Jamie Harvie. Jamie is the Executive Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Future. Jamie was recognized by the Natural Resources Defense Council as a National Thought Leader for his work integrating a sustainable food and prevention agenda into the national healthcare setting. He is a contributor to the text book, Integrative Medicine, 3rd Ed. This month, he was included in Food Service Director, one of the nation’s premier food service...