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How Much Money Has Your Doctor Received from Drug Companies?
About a year ago, I wrote to you about a tool created by the public interest group, ProPublica, that allows you to search their Dollars for Docs database to find out how much money your doctor has...
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New Study Reveals Most Doctors Take Supplements and Recommend Them to Their...
A new survey commissioned by the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) and published in the peer-reviewed Nutrition Journal indicates that many physicians use dietary supplements and recommend them...
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Doctors Say Avoiding Unnecessary Procedures Will Reduce Health Care Costs…But...
If you think that our nation’s current health care system — with its wastefulness and burdensome costs — is beyond repair, you’ll be glad to here that there could be some changes coming soon....
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Q & A with Dr. Kevin Passero: Understanding Naturopathic Medicine
We’re thrilled to announce that Kevin Passero, ND has recently joined the Live in the Now Editorial Team as our Medical Editor. Dr. Passero will be contributing articles more frequently and working...
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How To Be a Great Patient: A Doctor’s Wish List
Given the state of our broken health care system, I feel like we doctors don’t have much right to ask our patients how to behave, since most of us are falling far short of how our patients would...
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15 Questions You Need to Ask Your Doctor Before Filling That Prescription
While some doctors have all the right intentions when it comes to giving you the best care, many usually don’t have the time to do so. You may have experienced this if you’ve ever felt rushed at the...
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Are You Really Acting as Your Own Health Advocate?
When my literary agent Michele read the first draft of my book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, she said, “Lissa, before I read your book … I thought my body was like...
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11 Ways To Be A More Proactive Patient
As I wrote about here, too many patients hand the power of their health over to physicians who they believe will fix them, and then if the doctor fails to cure what ails them, they get frustrated and...
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How To Advocate For Yourself With Doctors
When I read the following Facebook post from my friend Aviva Romm, MD, it struck me that if a Yale-trained physician who works with Mark Hyman, MD has this much trouble getting the kind of medical...
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How to Protect Yourself From Being Overbilled at the Doctor’s Office
Americans have a long history of trusting the advice, knowledge, and integrity of physicians, with this way of thinking perhaps being most common among older generations. But are some people being...
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