Integrative Healthcare night; Love and laughter

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Monday April 07, 2008 · 4:14 PM PDT

2008/04/07 · 16:14

Love and Laughter; The Best Medicine

With all the tension that has built up during this primary season, (my wife often walks around the house muttering "the Clintons are killing me"), I believe it is important to find ways to relieve the stress and bring us back to a more centered space. As a physician, (surgeon for 16 years, now in integrative medicine), I was inspired last week by dallasdoc healthcare night. So I decided to start another short series of diaries in integrative medicine. If you are unfamiliar with integrative medicine, it is generally considered a blending of conventional and alternative medicine. We are bombarded with television ads on how numerous pharmaceuticals, supplements or various devices can improve our health and our lives, but no talks about the things that are readily available to all of us and have been shown to be far more effective than any medicine or devices.

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Saturday March 22, 2008 · 4:12 AM PDT

2008/03/22 · 04:12

I have been fortunate for most of my life to be able to see the "Big Picture". Some of this may be genetic and some circumstantial. I was born and raised in a northern blue collar city but spent my adult life in a small southern town. My family is blue collar by tradition and I was initially a plumber, but I eventually went to medical school and became a physician. My family comes from a long line of evangelical Methodists and I was a Methodist as a child, Episcopalian as a preteen and went to Catholic school as a teenager. I now lean toward eastern philosophies. It is this broad range of experiences, I believe, that has made it easy for me to continually see the "Big Picture"

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