A while ago, I blogged about the benefits of the push up. I’ve got another exercise for you – the burpee and its many iterations.

It's been such a long time since I've written in my blog.  There have been many changes here at SVMC.  These changes affect many people in good and bad ways.  One change that was very sad to me was the loss of our diabetes education department and our outpatient nutrition program.  There are many people asking why this happened and what are we going to do about educating our community in regards to healthy nutrition and diabetes. 

When Michael Polifka and I were planning our practice together, we had many discussions about the “privilege” of practicing medicine. That’s what it’s called when you get “permission” to practice in a hospital — “privileges” to practice. In those long discussions about what we wanted out of our careers, we spoke about the intimacy involved in the conversations and plans we made with patients around their deepest fears and the uncertainties of prognosis, especially with serious disease. It is a privilege to have that degree of trust placed on the doctor-patient relationship.