We all need a health care agent to speak for us if we are incapacitated while critical decisions must be made about our care, for example, in an ICU. Your doctor discusses some of the many issues surrounding health care agents and provides a standard health care proxy form used to appoint the agent.
Dr. Kanner loves medical boredom because then the patient is almost always healthy. Interesting cases are intellectually fascinating but may have bad outcomes. Which would you prefer?
Brief explanation of the medical home concept, improved service to members, fruit donations by the Orchard Health Care orchard, 2011 membership fees, and a poignant Thanksgiving story.
A well-functioning heart and blood vessels are central to your overall health and longevity. Many major diseases, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and cigarette smoking have severe adverse effects on those organs. And normal aging produces slow but real damage to those vital organs. What can your physicians do to help you preserve healthy cardiovascular function for…
The group will have a participatory sampling of tasty but modest calorie snacks for our next meeting at the office. Come and bring your best.
Ginkgo biloba was just shown to be ineffective to prevent cognitive decline in a large, randomized and controlled trial of over 3000 older adults followed for over 6 years in an NIH-sponsored multi-center study published in JAMA. Applying critical evaluation to all purported therapies.
A preventive medicine task force just suggested that women not have mammograms in their 40’s and should only be screened every two years after that. And don’t bother with breast self-exam or your doctor’s breast exam. And the gynecologists’ task force declared that no women should have Pap smears before age 21 and less frequently thereafter. What to make of this? Ask your doctor, they say. How do we make sense of this?
We have a short break in seasonal flu shot availability because production was stopped to allow conversion to H1N1. Full supplies should arrive in November, in plenty of time for the normal flu that starts in late December.
Information about H1N1 influenza and the forthcoming vaccine continues to evolve. Here is a summary of our most recent updates and recommendations.
Fall is arriving, along with traditional influenza and the new swine flu. With appropriate precautions and available immunizations, we should all be able to enjoy a healthy season. Here is the current status and our recommendations.