What Does It Really Mean to Be Healthy?

What Does It Really Mean to Be Healthy?

What does it actually mean to be healthy? Have you stopped to consider the state of your personal health? Have you asked yourself if you are healthy or not?  The answer to this particular question depends on how you define health and, as it turns out, there is no hard...

“It’s why you do it”

It’s not what you do, it’s why you do it. In the past few months we’ve successfully renamed and relocated my practice, Innova Primary Care.  We have a space that is 8,750 square feet larger than our previous space and the ability to use that space to best suite our...
Just Another Day Practicing Medicine in Alabama

Just Another Day Practicing Medicine in Alabama

A few Friday’s ago was an average day in my office.  We had 60 guests come through our door for medical services. 60 guests whose ages ranged from 6 years old to 85 years old on that particular day.  We took care of their needs ranging from ear infections, high...

Courage

  “…the reason to move on really comes down to one word, courage. The courage to move on, do something new that betters all of us, and our team has tremendous courage.” – Phil Schiller Listening to the Apple iPhone media event yesterday I was struck by Phil’s...

Preventive Care ≠ eye exams for the blind

(Part 2 of How our healthcare system is making doctors even more paternalistic) Following last week’s post, here’s the story of Shannon*…a patient who has suffered one of the horrible manifestations of diabetes, blindness. She uses the assistance of...