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Archive for July, 2010 July 26th
2010
Vital Health Institute Provides Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Health Care My vision in creating Vital Health Institute was to provide the best possible medical care for patients in a respectful healing environment. Simply put, my goal was to correct the medical problems that patients presented to me. But no one seemed to have the answers. In spite of having the good fortune to train at some of the best institutions in the world with some of the best doctors, I wasn’t able to find anyone who understood what this disease was really all about and what was needed to fix the problem. Thus, I embarked on my 20-year medical journey to seek the answers to these questions. (more…) July 19th
2010
I learned some important lessons in New Orleans. The most important lesson was to completely trust what my patients were telling me about their bodies and the pain they were experiencing. I had one patient in particular who came to see me six weeks after she had surgery with another physician. (more…) July 12th
2010
A Computer at My Fingertips Reaches Around the World This award-winning research definitely opened up the door to a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Wow! Another step and another door opened to an amazing opportunity. I mean, Johns Hopkins! This was arguably the best fellowship at the best medical school in the country. (more…) July 5th
2010
How far I had come and how lucky I was to have the support of so many great people! They say that opportunity is the result of hard work in preparation for taking advantage of the right circumstances. My mom and dad had taught me discipline and a great work ethic. They also taught me humility, maybe even a little too much, but they are great parents who raised three amazing sons. I am so proud of my brothers. Any parent knows how challenging it is to raise successful, well-adjusted children. Anyway, although it had been 12 years since high school, where I was an ok student, here I was standing on the stage being given the presentation for the best research in the world for an OB/GYN resident physician in 1987. How did that happen? (more…) |
