Sensible Medicine: A Rational and Collaborative Approach
Submitted by Dr. Deborah on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 12:14
Your HealthWorks embodies what I think of as Sensible Medicine. We offer you a partnership in health, similar to what I offer patients at my medical practice. Similar to most doctors, I perform a wide variety of jobs around the office, medical tasks such as physical examinations, clinical diagnosis, and ordering lab tests. Interestingly, in the world of medical reimbursement, these tasks hold little value. Paul Levy's recent entry in his informative blog Not Running a Hospital, describes the annual process of how a small team of physicians decides the reimbursement value of every action a physician might take, also known as the Relative Value Scale (RVS).
It is easy to think that if you train harder, longer and more frequently you will get stronger, faster, etc. The truth is, that training hard day after day puts your body in a constant state of stress and breakdown. Over training is actually worse than under training!
In the past few years, nutrition has become a controversial subject. To some it's political or ethical, and to some it may be the construct on which they base their lifestyle. To me, nutrition is an important and basic foundation of how I want to live my life. What I put into my body determines what I can get out of my body and for how long.