The new year is a time when we often think about our health and lifestyle and make new goals for the coming year; it’s a natural thing to do, right? Well, not to disappoint, I want to share with you some alarming information about why some are saying that sitting is the new smoking. In…
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The Ins and Outs of Diverticulitis
Little did I know when I experienced my fist episode of diverticulitis years ago that it would later change my health and my life in a dramatic way. Repeated episodes of diverticulitis requiring treatment with multiple antibiotics led to me having recurrent c diff infections. Yet, diverticulitis is not an uncommon problem. Today let’s look…
Making the most of your clinic visit
The practice of medicine is so different today from what it used to be. There is so much pressure on providers to see volumes of patients, so many new medications and treatments and conditions to know. With the average medical visit lasting 15-18 minutes, how can you ensure that you are making the most of…
The problem of sludge
My life lately has been filled with sludge. Not that sticky icky thick stuff like out of a crankcase, but the time-sucking, demeaning and engineered-to-demoralize type of bureaucratic red tape stuff. I know you have been subjected to sludge, too. We all have. Cass Sunstein recently dubbed the name “sludge” for this kind of stuff….
SB 2076, the PASTEUR Act: Your Help is Needed
After suffering from a recurrent antibiotic-related infection for nearly a year, antibiotic stewardship is a topic near and dear to my heart. Antimicrobial resistance is a near second. Antimicrobial resistance – when bacteria become resistant to usual antibiotics – is a complex and growing problem in the U.S. Enter SB 2076, the PASTEUR Act. Why…
Antibiotic Stewardship Matters
For many years I had discussions with my patients about how we as health care providers needed to be good stewards of antibiotic use. It usually came in the context of explaining to a patient why I thought they didn’t need an antibiotic for their condition. Little did I know that that I would develop…