Five Things To Do For Your Health: May

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Looking for your five things to do this month? Head over the SFGate for Doc Gurley’s five simple ways to promote your health this month. There’s no greater gift than the body you were born with – nurturing it all year is an important but often-neglected task. Check them out, then follow this Doc [...]

Observatory Grand Rounds

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This week’s Grand Rounds is being hosted by an altogether NEW type of site – the Health Blogs Observatory. At the

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HBO (no pay-per-view or cable installation required!) you can find a sweeping round-up of quintessential posts from health blogs around the world. This week’s theme – send us [...]

Charging Rent To The Homeless

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Here’s a new twist on just how far we as a society go to wring the very last penny out of some of our most destitute:

CNN covered the issue of New York”s decision to charge rent to the homeless staying in shelters – but only if they’re working.  It’s a perfect storm of [...]

How To Ask A Doctor Out

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Spring is in the air – and so are the musings of Click and Clack. Check out their latest article titled How To Ask Your Mechanic Out On A Date. There are sooo many mechanic-doctor job parallels, everything from the “checking under your hood,” to “preventive maintenance” – parallels  which, of course, lead to [...]

Now That’s a Mother…

Check out the Doc Gurley article at SFGate – the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle – where she discusses the amazing Mother Wright. Mary Ann Wright was a woman who was “right” is so many ways – a true everyday hero of our times. In the article, you’ll find not only a [...]

AusMed Grand Rounds

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Time to head down under to the Nursing Handover portion of the AusMed website – for some wonderful Grand

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Rounding (hey, we’ve been doing it so long now, it really ought to be a verb, don’t you think?).  Like early-morning handover rounds, there are gritty details, heart-warming insights, the [...]

Well Worth It: Britain’s Cheap Anti-Diabetes Cholesterol Pills

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Welcome to another Well Worth It – articles about proven, data-driven studies that you may not hear much about in the main-stream media (usually because of a lack of profit-driven PR). Be sure to forward the Well Worth It information along to anyone you think might benefit!

What if you found out there was [...]

Well Worth It: Heart Help Really Helps!

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Welcome to another Well Worth It – articles about proven, data-driven studies that you may not hear much about in the main-stream media (usually because of a lack of profit-driven PR). Be sure to forward the Well Worth It information along to anyone you think might benefit!

Recent news that we reviewed here at [...]

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Doc Gurley is a Board-certified Internist physician and the only Harvard Medical School graduate to have been awarded a Shoney’s Ten-Step Pin for documented excellence in waitressing. Find out more.

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