Often a small daily dose of practicing gratitude will make such a difference. When you start feeling down or thinking you’re having a terrible week or month, see if you can, even if for a few minutes, look at the glass as being half full instead of half empty. Start feeling thankful for things you…
Cardiovascular and other circulatory disorders include coronary artery disease, disease of the veins (i.e. peripheral vein disease) and arteries outside of heart, heart rhythm disorders, valvular heart disease, heart failure, and congenital heart disease. Among diseases of arteries outside the heart is stroke, where basically there’s a blockage in the blood supplying a part of…
The Alpha variant was first detected in the United Kingdom and we first saw it in US in December 2020. It spread considerably faster than the original virus. The Beta variant, first detected in South Africa also at the end of the year and it was detected in the US towards end of January 2021….
Men are more likely to die earlier than women. On average, men live about 5 years less than women in the US, i.e. 76 years vs. 81 years (CDC), and this trend is global. There could be many reasons for such a disparity. For example, although it may seem that women are more likely to…
Physical activity doesn’t necessarily mean running, jogging, or doing crossfit. It can simply be a brisk walk. Regular physical activity It strengthen your muscles and bones gives your heart exercise releases feel good hormones to your body Regular physical activity helps decrease risk of: Cardiovascular disease Blood pressure Diabetes (type 2) Stroke Cancer Dementia and…
This is very true. I recall that as I was interviewing for a fee for service primary care job, I very vividly recall the hospital administration giving me the tour saying I’d need to see about 30 patients a day to break even for them. I was very very fortunate in that in the following…
Why the picture above? That’s the dinner I was lucky to have with my family on New Year’s Eve. Every dish on there is very healthy. If a few may not appear as healthy, extra yet easy steps were taken in the making (by the very talented cook, not myself) to ensure healthier ingredients were…
Have you ever been told that if you lose 3500 calories from your diet in a week, you will lose a pound a week? So you go home all excited and start cutting 500 calories a day so you can cut about 3500 calories in one week. Perhaps your phone app or even a weight…
Q. Tell us about Birmingham Direct Primary Care and how it’s different than other primary care clinics? Birmingham Direct Primary Care (Birmingham DPC) is a family medicine clinic providing comprehensive medical care to patients of all ages, ranging from newborns to the elderly. What makes our clinic unique is that we use a membership-based model…
Q. How does your clinic help small businesses? If an employer is currently not offering any kind of health benefit for his or her employees, just for starters this would be a very affordable way to give access to primary care by enrolling their employees in our clinic. Then acquiring a level-funded insurance plan built…
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