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Posts by Donald McGee
If you find yourself grappling with depression, you are—for better or worse—not alone. However, if you do suffer from depression, you do feel alone.... as of 2012, diagnoses of depression are growing at an alarming rate ...Healthline reports that, as of 2012, diagnoses of depression are growing at an alarming rate and, as if depression alone weren’t enough, states that report high rates of depression...
5/20/2015 7:00:00 AM
If “wellness” is a result of our daily choices that lead to healthy balanced states of mind, body, spirit, lifestyle, and Social aspects, then how might various imbalances or unhealthy choices (stress, food choices, etc) affect our DNA or even our children?In this breakthrough study (Environmental Health Perspective , 2006 114:567-572), researchers showed that dietary changes of pregnant mice permanently...
4/14/2015 7:00:00 AM
I just attended a very useful meeting, where there is a consensus that maybe how we practice primary care, an ideal, is actually a failure in reality. To some, it could look like a big power trip for a physician to invite you into her or his “territory,” ask you to sit on the end of a hard examination table half-naked, and offer no recognition that you took a half day off and maybe a quarter of tank...
3/28/2015 7:00:00 AM
Continuous media hype from self-proclaimed “health experts" and diet gurus decrees the necessity for drinking a minimum of eight 8-ounce glasses of water daily. There are other people, many of whom are bona fide experts, waging the argument that you can drink too much water, even to the consequence of death.The ever-present water bottle clutched in the hands of celebrities whose photos look out at...
3/3/2015 8:00:00 AM
There certainly is a role for “Doc in the Box" TeleMedicine access to all patients: especially those that research a condition and looking for an expert or “secondary" opinion. In other words, there is an important role to have physicians and other licensed people, with particular expertise in conditions or sub conditions, handling informational consultations, akin to free market access for anyone...
2/26/2015 10:00:00 PM
Most physician visits have more to do with information and consultation than actual treatment (e.g. prescriptions). What is now emerging are companies recruiting physicians to take information calls, presumably to back up a person's search on the internet with more professional advice. After all, people do trust physicians more than any other source.With ObamaCare and the tectonic shifts in health...
2/20/2015 8:00:00 AM
Body inflammation gets a lot of bad press, but these stories refer to chronic or excessive inflammation that causes health problems. There is also a good type of inflammation that occurs when a strong immune system responds therapeutically to an illness or injury. Beneficial inflammation is a survival tool the healthy immune system uses to differentiate a harmless substance from a harmful one called...
1/20/2015 8:00:00 AM
Health claims attributed to probiotics abound—from alleviating diarrhea and controlling chronic digestive problems to curing vaginal yeast infections in women. In some instances, research evidence supports claims; in others, the findings aren't clear. With so much conflicting information, what should you believe about the health benefits of probiotics? Should they be ingested regularly as a preventive?...
11/11/2014 8:00:00 AM
I read an article in Wellness.com recent news from Yale researchers Predict "Catastrophic" Ebola Epidemic in West Africa If Aid Delayed. (HealthDay). Now, we have an ER doc returned from an endemic area, after noble service, but in a New York Hospital with Ebola, his fiancé at high risk, and out in the public last 3 days not feeling well. Obviously, his self-monitoring quarantined plan failed. If the...
10/24/2014 7:00:00 AM
The first patient actually infected in the United States is a nurse out of Dallas caring for the FIRST victim to enter the United States. The CDC states that the nurse broke protocol, but specifically what protocol did she break? The people want to know; health professionals want to know. The CDC must publish this protocol lapse, so we all can be better informed. I mentioned in the preceding article...
10/13/2014 7:00:00 AM
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