Zen and the Art of General Practice

January 29, 2008
Zen and the Art of General Practice

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
I have recently had reason to think about Tom Marshall’s propositon that ”General Practice is the best job in the world – you get paid for talking to your friends.”
Certainly [...]

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If You Snooze, You Lose

January 11, 2008

LFiles has previously discussed ways of waking up fresh in the mornings.
The team at ThinkGeek have come up with a new gadget to make sure you learn the message that when you snooze, you lose.
The Sn?zNL?z – Wifi Donation Alarm Clock will make sure you leap out of bed.
The SnuzNLuz connects wirelessly to the internet. [...]

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Rethinking Thin and Mindless Eating

January 4, 2008

Reason magazine online has a review of two new books on weight loss that are relevant to our stepUp program.
In Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata, a veteran New York Times science reporter uses case studies to illustrate her general point that “very few people lose substantial amounts of weight and keep it off” because genetic factors [...]

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stepUp – the GP Collaborative Guide to Health

January 4, 2008

The year before last, my patient Kevin had a heart attack. Last year, he lost 18kg using the products of ‘A Big Weight Loss Franchise®.’ But last week, he was 5kg heavier than when he started!
I seem to be having a lot of conversations with patients about weight loss. We really want them to think [...]

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