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Obesity Trends

Whither Goes Lifestyle in the Wake of Ozempic?

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HAL 9000

Is AI Coming to a Clinic Near You?

Ayers, et al., recently published a provocative article likely to trigger reflexive efforts to use chatbots to answer patient queries. I’ll discuss such usage in a moment...

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SHS Joins the True Health Initiative

Sustainable Health Systems is proud to announce that our president, Geoffrey E. Moore, MD FACSM, has been named to the Council of Directors for the global voice for lifestyle as medicine, the True...

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Physical Functioning and Preserving Quality-of-Life

One day while I was rounding in the hospital, a physician described her patient as having “the dwindles”. That wasn’t a medical term I’d encountered, nor have I heard others use it since, but I adopted the notion. In pediatrics, failure to...

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Exercise as Medicine

As senior editor, I'm proud to announce that the American College of Sports Medicine has published the fourth edition of ACSM’s Exercise Management for Persons With Chronic Diseases and Disabilities. Informally known to my fellow editors...

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Population Health Management

Value-Based Payment, Checkboxes and the Dark Matter of Population Health

The Dark Matter of Population Health

Last week, CMS proposed new rules for compensating physicians through value-based payment. Now open 60-days for comment, the final rules aren’t expected until fall of 2016. The proposed...

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Treat Every Patient Like She's Your Mother

 

Empathy (noun) — the ability to understand and share the feelings of another; derived from the Greek pathos, or feeling.

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Eat Well and Stay Well

New Dietary Guidelines - Back to the Future

 

Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines, almost a year after the Advisory Committee submitted its recommendations. These Guidelines are a big step forward, although not as big...

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Annual Wellness Visits - Pro vs Con

The New England Journal of Medicine recently ran a Pro -vs- Con op-ed debate on the merits of well-patient visits in primary care. Like other such discussions, wellness visits were conflated with physical exams, the operative words are ...

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Compassionate Use for Community-Based Interventions?

Somewhere between the age of 3 and 4 years old, while playing on the swingset next to the gravel driveway at my grandparent’s house, I heard my Grandfather say:

 “There’s more than one way to skin a cat”.

He explained the metaphor...

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