Holiday Challenge: Dance as if no one is watching. Having trouble keeping your Maintain Don’t Gain promise? Maybe these strategies will help. 1) Crank up the holiday music and dance as if no one is watching. Close the drapes just in case. If you need dance ideas then watch RuPaul’s Drag Race, those queens have…
Tag: women’s health
A Party for Annie
A Party for Annie “Annie wants a birthday party with balloons. Six year olds like pink cake and ballerinas,” Jill instructed, her voice trailing off in a drug induced slumber. Owen peered over the bed rail at his crumpled wife and he dialed his sister’s cell phone. Answering on the first ring Cheryl’s speech was…
Time To Revisit Your New Year’s Resolutions?
Hope is not a plan. Turn your wish into a plan. What really matters to you in 2015 and what’s your plan? Take a moment to reflect on the first six months of 2015 and look ahead to the rest of 2015. Do you need to change course? Re-commit? Congratulate yourself? Try this exercise. Start…
Dr. Google Will Never Know You Like I Do or Care as Much
My blog friends saw it here first. My Dr. Google Post has been syndicated. Please take the time to visit KevinMD.com and comment and like me. Here’s my skeptical face, “You want to feature my little post? Really? Well ok if it makes the world a better place.” Actually I said, “Yes, wow, yes.” Or…
Leave Doctor Google in the Waiting Room – 10 Ways that the Internet Interferes With Your Healthcare
Please Leave Doctor Google* In The Waiting Room – 10 ways That Internet Diagnosing Interferes With Your Healthcare. 1) Doctor Google doesn’t know you: can’t see you, can’t hear your story, can’t smell you, and can’t touch you. It doesn’t have intuition or gut feelings about you.
My Fountain of Youth – Friday Fictioneers
My Fountain of Youth “Red pill, blue pill, little yellow capsule,” she sorted out loud, bifocals askew. “The red’s for vim. The blue’s for vigor. The yellow is for good measure.” she quipped as she reached for her kale smoothie handing him the costly treasure with a gnarled hand she barely recognized. “How can you…
Swallowing Glass
Join me for Flash Fiction with Rochelle Wisoff-Fields at Friday Fictioneers. Follow the link to read what others are writing today. I realize that my narrative medicine posts have been morose but the stories have been writing themselves. My career has been mostly joyous but these stories of suffering, my own and my patients’ need…
Tangling Roots
Photo credit: Melanie Greenwood Tangling Roots She heard the seductive call drift in on the soft breeze that brushed her ear, “Come and dance”. Was it the tumor speaking or did the maze actually beckon her? The hopeless grinding assault on her breast had left her drained and devoid of her own voice. She had…
2014 in review
May you be blessed with health in 2015! Who knew that this silly little eclectic blog would attract 4700 visitors from 88 counties in 10 months. The Internet makes this world such a small place. I’m so grateful for everyone who happens by and reads a post or stops to say hello or shares my…
December 3rd, Holiday Challenge
Today’s Challenge: Eat a protein rich breakfast every day. Start your day with a protein rich meal. Examples: a protein smoothie, eggs, a Greek yogurt, an apple with a tablespoon of nut butter, or a protein breakfast bar. When you eat protein in the morning you give your body a chance to rev up your…
What's for dinner, Doc? 