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Monday, April 27, 2015

An Interlude in Padua

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Prato della Valle is a huge open space at the edge of the old part of Padua. Once the site of a Roman theater and of Renaissance jousting ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Bells, the New Challenge, and Going Back to P90X

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Last spring I quit going to our local Y. Even with very intense workout I had been doing - a combination of weights, cardio, and stretching ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

A Question for Doctors: Are Sick Patients More Important Than Healthy Patients Who Are Trying to Stay Healthy?

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Continuing...  Now that I am in my late 60s I often worry that I am losing it. Incidents involving misplaced keys or forgotten grocery i...

What Happened Next

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Continuing...  Like many people who live far outside the Beltway, I tend to think of Medicare as an undifferentiated part of a faceless f...
Monday, December 15, 2014

"Humana, I Still Want My Premarin – So I Wrote to Medicare"

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December 11, 2014 Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, Maryla...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

Don’t Call Me Spry!

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“Aging is for people who don’t know better.” This Tony Horton quote came to mind as I read Alison Gopnik’s column in today’s Wall Street J...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Is There a Role for Fitness Professionals in Health Care?

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About six months ago a friend of mine started having trouble sleeping. He was being kept awake by a nagging pain under his rib cage. During...