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I’ve devoted several blogs to the Mediterranean Diet–its affect on cholesterol, on Alzheimer’s prevention, its red wine and palliation near the end of life, and its easy, rustic preparations. The mechanisms of the Mediterranean diet remain elusive: whether it is because of its [...]
My Medscape essay on Prescribing Red Wine in Palliative Care, which I’ve reproduced for you below, has attracted good stories and comments, and it is something I have thought a lot about, while also trying to decide whether to get labs on my 18 month old barrels of pinot [...]
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My patient Jill is carrying 40 pounds she didn’t have 20 years ago. She was going to lose it when she retired, but now she didn’t have time. Jill is also newly re-married, and her new younger hubby wants to have sex all the time. It is killing her, [...]