Mohsin Sandhu: May 2008 Archives
"I was visited by Dr. Linda Lee and her husband, Ben, yesterday morning.
She is another family physician practicing in the solo-solo Gordon
Moore mode, and she also happens to be Gordon Moore's next door office neighbor in Rochester, NY. She was in town visiting relatives (and getting some surfing in!). It was fun to share experiences and compare notes. She has a practice that seems very similar to mine. She has about 500 patients, and works about 3-4 days/week while her 3 kids are in school. She is very flexible with her scheduling. She has a working spouse so they are not solely dependent on her income. She has closed her practice (sort of) to new patients, accepting only relatives of already enrolled patients. She has no employees and does everything herself, although Alteer makes it very easy for her to bill electronically, while I have to use a separate program that doesn't share info with my EMR. On the other hand, I didn't pay $20,000+ for my EMR, so I'm not so worried if my EMR company goes bankrupt and takes my data with it..."
Read the full article by Akifox, at SoloDoc
"Most people spend most of their day sitting with relatively idle
muscles. Health professionals advise that at least 30 minutes of
activity at least 5 days a week will counteract health concerns, such
as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity that may result from
inactivity. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia say
a new model regarding physical activity recommendations is emerging.
New research shows that what people do in the other 15 and a half hours
of their waking day is just as important, or more so, than the time
they spend actively exercising. "Many activities like talking on the phone or watching a child's ballgame can be done just as enjoyably upright, and you burn double the number of calories while you're doing it," said Marc Hamilton, an associate professor of biomedical sciences whose work was recently published in Diabetes..."
Read the full article by Christian Basi, at EurekAlert
