5/8/13  STARTING THE BLOG

This is my first effort at creating a blog. I decided to start a website this year. The website is under way, but it is very slow going. I have many ideas about medicine and healthcare in general that I want to share, and this seems like a good forum to start that. Eventually, I would like to put these ideas together into a book, and this blog will serve as my rough draft for that.

I have wanted to put together a website for many years. I have boxes of handouts and exercises, articles about nutrition, notebooks about health and prevention, and lots of ideas about healthcare (many mainstream and some alternative) that I want to share. Up to now, the idea of synthesizing all the information has been overwhelming, but technology certainly does make it easier and putting it together is now more accessible. The prospect of creating this website is exciting, and I am looking forward to working on it, a little at a time, to gradually but steadily develop a source of information for my patients, as well as an outlet for me to synthesize some ideas and concepts about medicine that I want to further develop later.

The most important part of the website will be the Patient Education tab. I will put in lots of links to articles and exercises. The blog is more personal. I will be happy to have whoever is interested read along as I create it, but I don't have any definite direction or goals with it, and I just want to see how it develops and unfolds.

10/11/14

OK. so I am admittedly not very good at writing. Or at least not good at finding time to write. But I just spent a week at The Primary care Medicine course thru Harvard in Boston, and I want to share some of what I learned. It was a 41 hour course. It was an excellent review of medicine. It was an especially long week driving back and forth. This was the schedule. In the next post, I will list some of the highlights that I learned during the week

Primary Care Internal Medicine: Principles and Practices
Monday, October 6, 2014
General Session
7:15 Introduction and Welcome John D. Goodson, MD
7:30 Updating Your Knowledge Base for Clinical
Practice: Bringing Information to Patient Care*
John D. Goodson, MD
8:30 Advanced Treatment Choices for Ischemic Heart
Disease
Eric M. Isselbacher, MD
9:30 Diseases of the Colon: IBS and IBD Joshua Korzenik, MD
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Obesity Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD
11:45 Peripheral Vascular Disease Michael R. Jaff, DO
12:45 Lunch On Your Own
1:30 Smoking Cessation: Where are we Now? Nancy A. Rigotti, MD
2:30 Colon Cancer: Screening, Evaluation
and Treatment
David P. Ryan, MD
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Workshop Sessions A
A2 Otolaryngology in Primary Care
Stacey T. Gray, MD
Alicia M. Quesnel, MD
5:15 – 6:15 pm
Workshop Sessions B
B1 Low Back Pain in the Athlete Joanne Borg-Stein, MD
B2 Otolaryngology in Primary Care
(Repeated Session A)
Stacey T. Gray, MD
Alicia M. Quesnell, MD
B3 Cannot Miss Diagnoses in Primary Care*
Charles J. Hatem, MD
Primary Care Internal Medicine: Principles and Practices

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

7:30 Heart Disease in Athletes Young and Old Aaron L. Baggish, MD
8:30 Contemporary Management of Heart Failure G. William Dec, Jr., MD
9:30 Cerebrovascular Disease Galen V. Henderson, MD
10:45 Update on Asthma - 2014 Christopher H. Fanta, MD
11:45 Lab Tests and Diagnostic Procedures
for the Liver
Sanjiv Chopra MD, MACP
1:30 Differential Diagnosis of Polyarthritis Robert P. Friday, MD, PhD
2:30 Lipid Management: Goals and Therapies Jorge Plutzky, MD
4:00 Case-Based Workshop Sessions C – Breakout Rooms
Workshop Sessions C
C6 Thyroid Disorders
William M. Kettyle, MD
5:15 – 6:15 pm
Workshop Sessions D
D1 Concussions: On the Field and in the Office Patricia A. Gibbons, MD
Primary Care Internal Medicine: Principles and Practices

Wednesday, October 8, 2014
7:30 Active Management of Chronic Kidney
Disease
David J. R. Steele, MD
8:30 Dementia Andrew E. Budson, MD
9:30 Hematology in Practice Lisa Weissmann, MD
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Radiology Update: How to Effectively Employ
Current Imaging Technologies
Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH
11:45 Pain Management* Gary J. Brenner, MD, PhD
12:45 Clinical Crossroads: A 60-Year-Old Man with
Chronic Pain Requesting Marijuana
Kevin P. Hill, MD
Thor Agustsson, DO
2:30 Headaches Rebecca C. Burch, MD
3:30 Workshop Sessions E
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Evening Session
E5 Dermatology A-Z: A Refresher for Primary Care
Daniela Kroshinsky, MD, MPH

Primary Care Internal Medicine: Principles and Practices
Thursday, October 9, 2014
7:30 Osteoporosis John D. Goodson, MD
8:30 Hypertension Gerald W. Smetana, MD
9:30 COPD and Interstitial Lung Disease Walter J. O’Donnell, MD
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Managing Menopause Amid Controversy Carol K. Bates, MD
11:45 The Neurological Exam* Martin A. Samuels, MD
12:45 How Physicians are Paid and what is the Future
for Primary Care?*
John D. Goodson, MD
2:30 New Anticoagulant and Antiplatelet Therapies Lisa Weissmann, MD
3:30 Primary Care Internal Medicine: Principles and Practices
Thursday, October 9, 2014
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Workshop Sessions F
F7 Clinical Challenges: An App for this
and an App for that
David Shein, MD

Primary Care Internal Medicine: Principles and Practices
Friday, October 10, 2014
7:30 Diabetes: Innovative Management David M. Nathan, MD
8:30 GERD, Ulcer Disease and Celiac Sprue Kyle D. Staller, MD
9:30 Contraception Jane S. Sillman, MD
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 Sleep Disorders: Assessment and
Therapeutic Options
Matt T. Bianchi, MD, PhD
11:45 Depression/Anxiety Anne D. Emmerich, MD

 

This is the most recent course attended

PriMed East September  2017

Dermatological Infections and Their Mimicker

Non HDL cholesterol

Osteopathy

Prolotherapy

Tensegrity