Avoid These Common Food Additives

A “food additive” is any substance added to food in order to improve the safety, freshness, taste, texture, appearance, or nutritional value....

Live longer with laughter

How delightful to learn that laughter really is the best medicine and will perhaps add as many good years to your life as other familiar health...

Staying Cool In Summer

Summertime in Western Colorado offers some of the best outside adventure in the world, whether it is cycling across desert slick rock or rafting...

Palliative Pearls

My summary notes from the wonderful book, "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande. ADLs Eat, toilet, bathe, groom, dress, get out of bed, get out of chair,...

Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK)

MARCH Massive Hemorrhage CAT Quickclot Compressed guaze Kerlex / Coban / Israeli gauze / ETD Duct tape iTClamp Airway NP airway King airway I-Gel...

The Integrative Medicine Approach

To integrate is to “form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole”. Integrative medicine blends together traditional Western...

Anti-Microbial Soaps

With the rise of hospital and health care related infections, there has been a needed push to improve the frequency and effectiveness of hand...

Death via the Prescription Pad

Primum non nocere or “first, do no harm” is taught to all healthcare providers, so that we might always remember that in our efforts to do something...

Calm but not Fatigued

We all want to be in the mental “zone” — you know, between having plenty of energy yet feeling calm and relaxed. For so many of my patients this...

Covid19 Therapies

Covid19 infection presents some unique and serious challenges.  We've learned much about the details of the infection in general, why some groups...