By Elana Kreiger-Benson
Peer Reviewed
“I’m not actually planning to try it,” the patient whispered to me while I was feeling her radial pulses. We had just finished an extensive conversation with her primary care …
By Elana Kreiger-Benson
Peer Reviewed
“I’m not actually planning to try it,” the patient whispered to me while I was feeling her radial pulses. We had just finished an extensive conversation with her primary care …
By Lily Cao
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A quick web search would suggest countless reasons to take fish oil, a supplement that Americans have fallen in love with. In 2012, …
By Ashira Lubkin, PhD
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For me, one of the most difficult things to do in outpatient medicine is to tell a patient that they need to lose …
By Hannah Kopinski
Peer Reviewed
Diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. One would be hard pressed to find an adult primary care physician in the United States who would not …
By Andrew Sideris
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Reduction of dietary sodium is a well-known nonpharmacologic therapy to reduce blood pressure. The 8th Joint National Commission (JNC-8) recommends that the general population limit daily …
By Elissa Driggin
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At almost every single one of my medical school interviews, each interviewer, noting my college major in nutritional science, asked some variation of the question, “What …
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated September 30, 2011
By Vicky Jones, MD
A 40-year-old female presented to her primary care provider with a chief complaint of weight gain over the past year. She wants to be fully evaluated for any …
By Michael Lee, MD
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The human taste bud has become increasingly accustomed to the Japanese invention of the early 20th century: monosodium glutamate, better known as MSG. Its basic component, …