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5 Reasons

5 Reasons To Get Excited About The Future Of Medicine

May 7th, 2021

By Dr. Scot Goldberg, MD

Advancements in medicine have made our lives better on Earth in so many ways over the centuries, and as with all technology it seems to be picking up pace.  Just look at how fast the Covid-19 vaccines were safely developed!  Please get yours by the way!

Future

Meanwhile there are myriads of reasons to be optimistic and excited about new developments but here are a few articles that have caught our eye recently that we wanted to share in one place here on the blog.

5 Reasons To Get Excited About The Future Of Medicine

  1. The fight against Alzheimer’s Disease seems to be progressing.  According to this article Alzheimer’s is the third leading cause of death in non-pandemic years of older adults, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.  It’s a horrible disease and new hope for people dealing with it is exciting indeed.
  2. The future of specialized and precision medicine means better treatment.  In the future therapies will be increasingly directed based on an individual’s profile. Precision medicine has been particularly successful in targeting various aspects of DNA in the treatment of various diseases, particularly cancer.  DNA repair and other advancements are really encouraging as outlined in this article!
  3. Wearable technology is advancing to the point of providing valuable data to help monitor our health.  Holy moly – it’s amazing where some of this is going.  The latest Apple watches for example are likely to gain blood pressure, blood glucose and blood alcohol monitoring.  It’s really exciting!
  4. The ocean – yes the ocean – is becoming a resource for new drugs to fight cancer.  How neat is this?  As the final quote in this article tells us, “You might think that we know the depths of the ocean and the biodiversity of the ocean, but it is still largely uncharted.  There is really cool new chemistry in the ocean and we just need to be brave to go in and find it.”
  5. MANY MORE – okay I’m going to cheat a little here but this article from the Cleveland Clinic outlines 10 more – some of which are really incredible like breakthroughs in multiple sclerosis and cystic fibrosis treatments!

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5 “Potential Reasons” Why You Have White Coat Syndrome…

September 3, 2020

You may or may not be familiar with white coat syndrome.  Here is a link to an article in Medical News Today defining what it is and why it shouldn’t just be completely ignored.  Hypertension isn’t something to mess around with.

Now having said that, we do know as it says in the article that the anxiety of being around doctors may indeed have something to do with a temporary spike in blood pressure.  Why is this?  We’re not all bad we swear….. hehe…

White Coat Syndrome

 

We did some extensive and “really good” research and came up with five reasons that could explain this phenomenon.

5 Reasons You Might Have White Coat Syndrome

1. Your doctor looks like this guy…

Yep that’s Jack Elam as Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing in the silly film Cannonball Run.  We wouldn’t blame you if he gave you a little anxiety…

2. Your mother has been reminding you every time you sit down to eat to take care of yourself because of the heart history in your family as she’s serving you a huge pot roast and encouraging you to take seconds and thirds followed by homemade pound cake.  By the time you get to the doctor you’re terrified.

3. Your doctor has a picture of Ohio Stadium in the lobby and you’re a Michigan grad.  Okay that’s not exactly white coat syndrome – more like scarlet and grey uniform syndrome… either way it makes your blood boil.

4. Your doctor’s office lobby has the same color scheme as the principal’s office did at your high school.

5. Your doctor’s scale has been way off the last 8 straight times you’ve stepped on it.  No really you swear it has.

 

And there they are – the 5 reasons that might explain your white coat syndrome!

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South Macomb Internal Medicine

28401 Hoover Rd.  Warren, Michigan 48093

Phone: (586) 276-7530

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