Seventy year old Mrs. Lansing drew a complete blank as I asked her if she could recall any of the five words I’d given her to remember some 4-5 minutes ago as part of her mental status exam. Inwardly I always wince at those moments. It feels like I’m...
“So, my cholesterol’s running high? It’s probably all those eggs I’m eating. Give me a couple of months and I can fix that with my diet. I don’t want a heart attack… but I also don’t want to be on one of those statin drugs. Who wants something that saves your...
Maybe it’s the countless images of hearts everywhere I turn during this Valentine’s Day season, but it seems we should talk a little about protecting our hearts. If we were living in the U.S. in 1900, the top three causes of death would all be infectious diseases: flu...
The Syndrome That’s Sweeping the Nation One of the most common and damaging diagnoses I see day in and day out is one whose name many of my readers have heard little about. It is a syndrome that is epidemic in the U.S. with a staggering 1/3 of adults meeting its...
