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Independence
Independence July 4 is the very special day that the USA became independent. It took...
The Med List: Exercising to fight specific diseases
We often hear that movement is medicine, but how do you apply it to your unique health...
The Med List: No Fooling, Less Meds, & More Moves
We often fool ourselves into thinking a quick medication "fix" will do the trick, but quality...
The Med List: Mental Health Deprescribing for Young Adults
Most of us are aware that our senior population is overmedicated, but that doesn't just happen...
The Med List: Can we connect the patient medication experience?
Nothing feels connected when we consider the medication list. This is one of the reasons The...
The Med List: How Many Health Care Professions Are There?
With care personalization and patient choice growing in health care, it is important for health...
The Med List: Genes, drugs, and what you should know
So many things can make a drug a logical choice for one patient, but not another. What about...
The Med List: Issues with Off-Label Prescribing
Sometimes medicine doesn't move quickly enough or have incentives to study a new use for an...
The Med List: What does “Quality” mean in healthcare?
We hear the word quality care and you may have heard of quality improvement or quality metrics,...
The Med List: How do medications impact aging at home?
Lots of factors go into retirement planning, but what about your patient’s or your own med...
The Med List: Intro to Optimizing Physical Therapy
Getting the most out of your medical benefits seems like a given, but patients often skip &...
The Med List: Demystifying Hospice & Palliative Care
Diseases that are not "curable" and end of life treatment decisions are subjects that "we" try...
The Med List: New Year Exercise Mistakes
Getting your med list right can require lifestyle changes & sometimes we make “resolutions”...
The Med List: The Expanding Role of Caregivers
As the health system continues to evolve and our population ages we are seeing families have to...
The Med List: Should acupuncture play a role in your health?
When you hear acupuncture, what do you think of? Needles? "Alternative" medicine? Join us and...
The Med List: Behind The Scenes of Pharma Advertising Rules
The US is the only large country that allows advertising and promoting drugs directly to...
The Med List: Understanding The “Math” of Prescribing & Deprescribing
Prescribing and deprescribing are not simply addition and subtraction. This can be frustrating...
The Med List: End of Life Medication Decisions
During the last months, weeks, and days of life for our family, friends, and patients,...
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