Is Obesity a Disease? What do YOU think?
Several years ago, the American Medical Association (AMA) took up the question of whether obesity should be classified as a disease but deferred any decision to a later date. As noted in HBO’s The Weight of…
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Addressing Healthcare Inefficiencies
How do you deal with the inefficiencies of the healthcare system? This question was posed to a LinkedIn discussion group by White Glove Health, an Austin-based company that provides health care directly to you at home or…
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Dramatic Change in the Causes of Death
by Stephen C Schimpff, MD Most of us will not have the opportunity to just die of “old age” or to simply fall to sleep one night never to wake again. Most often, we develop an illness…