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Eating Soup with a Fork: Reshaping Global Health Care Delivery to Meet the Challenges of NCDs by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In the lead up to the UN High-Level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), there is been much discourse – and the rightfully so – on the need for greater public awaren ... Read on »

Figuring Out What Primary Care Is All About by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine After three years of clinical practice, I’m still not sure what being a primary care doctor means. This is especially odd because not only am I on the verge of completing my ... Read on »

From Diseases to Behaviors: A New Way of Looking at Health by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine What is the leading cause of death in the United States? Heart disease? Cancer? Smoking. Smoking? Yes, depending on how you ask the question. In the early 90s, McGinnis and ... Read on »

Dietary Guidelines 2010: A Worthwhile Read by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In case you missed it Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 was published this month.1 Commissioned by law, the Dietary Guidelines are revised and published every 5 years a ... Read on »

A Taste of Canada on Chicago’s South Side by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This past September, a group of medical residents at my institution began seeing primary care patients at a free clinic down the street from our tertiary academic medical ce ... Read on »

Giving Preventive Health Care A Name by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Preventive health care happens in the everyday practice of medicine, seamlessly. Most doctors, let alone patients, can’t put their fingers on the moment it happens, but it ... Read on »

Forgetting to Counsel Patients About Their Chronic Diseases by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The past two weeks I’ve been the “dayfloat” resident on the cardiology inpatient service. With the 30-hour-shift work “restrictions” placed on medical residents, there has ... Read on »

A Food-Based Approach to Eating by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The science of nutrition is changing and not in the way you might expect. After years of “reductionist” thinking — where food has been viewed as the sum of its parts – a c ... Read on »

A Great Save? by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In the real world of medicine, “great saves” are rare. Most patients that you expect to die will die, and those who experience a cardiac arrest or code rarely survive. Mr. ... Read on »

What Primary Care Can Learn from Oncology by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Why do my patients with cancer get better care than my patients in primary care? As the senior resident on my hospital’s inpatient leukemia service this past month, th ... Read on »

A Gentle Scolding by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine At the end of a busy afternoon, Mrs. MJ was exactly the kind of case I needed. Two of my patients had come in late but needed to be seen and another was acutely short of b ... Read on »

Competing on Outcomes, The Way to True Health Care Reform by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine On my drive in to work this past week I came across this: a bus-side advertisement for a local hospital (sadly, not mine) claiming that it was “home to the city ... Read on »

Sometimes It Takes A Village by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine “You know, what Mr. HD really needs is for his mom or somebody to chain herself to him…” [the ICU team laughs] …”But seriously, he needs to be watched over, he needs to be ... Read on »

Why is a Pill to Prevent Breast Cancer So Hard to Swallow? by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Cancer prevention is built around screening. In screening, the hope is to catch cancer at an earlier stage than it would be found otherwise and increase options for treatm ... Read on »

Salt- The Other “Pure, White and Deadly” by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In an earlier post, I talked about the dangers of sugar (see here ), which John Yudkin described in his book by the same name in 1974 as “pure, white and deadly.” In this ... Read on »

Video Lecture by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This past week I’ve been putting together a powerpoint presentation on preventive health care. The talk is a summary of much of the work I’ve done in prevention over the p ... Read on »

The Price of Preventive Health Care (Part 1) by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but is that still true in today’s money? Recently I had an illuminating conversation with a patient that got me t ... Read on »

Sugar In = Cholesterol Out by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Added sugars hit a new low this week. A study published in JAMA April 21, 2010 found that people who consume higher quantities of added sugars have worse cholesterol profi ... Read on »

Remembering What It Means To Be A Doctor by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine One week ago I was in rural Uganda supporting a new initiative aimed at improving the health of pregnant mothers. This is the third in a series of entries on my experience ... Read on »

Reflecting on Code Status by Dr. Nundy Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When someone dies at home we call it ‘going to a better place.’ When someone dies in the hospital we call it a ‘code.’ Rec ... Read on »

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