The heart is just a pump, a muscle. It’s simple. It squeezes the blood inside of it and valves determine how the blood flows through it. Each time the muscle...
“THAT’S MALPRACTICE!” ...The cardiologist was yelling this to me over the phone. Tom, the cardiologist's patient, stopped taking Atorvastatin (Lipitor) because it wasn’t working. Tom initially had a stent placed...
Yesterday I went to visit a friend of mine. But at the house his wife warned me that he was doing a “liver flush” and didn’t want to be disturbed....
Marilyn struggled with constipation and abdominal pain for as long as she could remember. As a child, she remembers having stomachaches. Her doctor diagnosed “irritable bowel syndrome” (IBS) and gave...
“It’s easy for you, you’re so thin…” a middle-aged, obese woman with many health problems said to me mournfully. She’s discouraged because she can’t seem to make her program work....
“Grandma fell and broke her hip!” is an all-too-common phrase in our society. People fear this because it often indicates the beginning of the end. Hip fractures lead to immobility...
A patient is taken to the Emergency Department of his local hospital with signs and symptoms of a stroke: one-sided weakness, speech changes, facial droop, severe headache, numbness on one...
Isaac had surgery on his shoulder, but it wasn’t successful. He still has weakness and is unable to lift his arm past 90 degrees on the side. The surgeon said...
Dennis was twenty-three when his mother brought him into my office. She was leading him by the hand, as he walked haltingly, and sat him down in the chair. He...
Preparation H is one of the most stolen items from stores. The funny nature of this statistic causes people to try and guess why. One theory is that people are...
Ten Commandments of Health and Longevity I grew up in the 1970s when carbohydrates were the best thing since sliced bread (because it was sliced bread!). Mom made sure we...
At first you have just a little burning in the toes or the ball of the foot. Then the tingling starts, soft at first, and only at night. The burning,...
