by Elizabeth | May 25, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, Chronic Illness, New Frontier of Health, Stress
Why Your Doctor Can’t Help You With Your Stress One of the most frequent questions I’m asked in my medical practice is “Do you think stress is causing this rash?” For years I answered this question by giving a biologic explanation for the rash, sticking strictly...
by Elizabeth | May 1, 2017 | Chronic Illness, Stress
When a Medical Rarity Becomes the Norm In 1912, Dr. Harvey Cushing, father of neurosurgery, described a cluster of symptoms — obesity, abnormal hair growth, and lack of menstruation — in a 23 year old woman, and posited that these symptoms were caused by a...
by Elizabeth | Apr 27, 2017 | Chronic Illness, Life is Good
How to Beat the Medical Odds Illness is frequently random. Catching the flu or breaking an arm can happen to anyone. Though many people believe your genetic code determines your health, the fact is genes don’t completely explain illness and can’t perfectly...
by Elizabeth | Mar 21, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, Chronic Illness, Health at Work
Work Should Make You Well If you google the phrase “working is making me sick,” you get over 99 million hits. Search engines work so quickly that we don’t usually take notice of the number of hits we get, but I’ll tell you that 99 million...
by Elizabeth | Mar 15, 2017 | Chronic Illness
How Loneliness Makes You Sick Humans are social animals. We are designed to live in communities. And, much as we like to think of ourselves as independent and self-sufficient, no one can survive without the help other people. This is why loneliness hurts. When we...
by Elizabeth | Mar 14, 2017 | Chronic Illness, For Doctors and Physicians, Loneliness
Why Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About the Greatest Threat to Your Health In my last post, I talked about the ways loneliness ruins your health. I suspect the statistics I quoted were a complete surprise. Chances are you’ve never heard anything about the...
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