Tag

alternative therapies Archivos - International Integrators | Integrative Health & Self-care

Public Speeches, Private Conversations and the Source of Trust, Health and Happiness

By | Uncategorized

By Tom Rosshirt A speechwriter learns that public speeches and private conversations are made great by the same ingredients, which can improve emotional and physical health as well. In the summer of 2008 I met in Washington, DC with two respected colleagues to study two dozen speeches and answer the question: “What makes a speech great?” After two days, we…

Read More

Looking Good on the Outside but in Trouble on the Inside – Part 2

By | diet, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Dean Ornish, heart attack, heart disease, lifestyle change, plant based diet, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Program for Reversing Heart Disease, reverse heart disease, the china study

The second of two essays about my journey into consciousness and action – by Tom Courl Read the first essay. Things haven’t been the same since a stress test at age 55 showed an arterial blockage and that I was at risk of having a heart attack. After getting the bad report, I could no longer cling to the story…

Read More

Your Integrative Toolkit for Cold Care

By | Uncategorized

By Kathryn Hayward, MD My daughter called me on the phone after taking her 15-month old baby to the doctor. Her voice was filled with the concern of a first-time mother whose first child had her first upper respiratory infection. “Mom, the doctor says that giving guaifenesin to Bianca is both dangerous and useless!” Growing up with a primary care…

Read More

Common Sense Health Care on Two Continents

By | Uncategorized

By Kathryn Hayward, MD and Jack Temple MS IV My heart quickened with excitement as I read Jack Temple’s last blog post. Dr. Edwards’ response to their conversation during Jack ́s residency interview filled me with hope. I thought, “In an actual residency interview, an MD showed interest in Jack’s experiences with Integrative Health. Wow.” I hadn’t spoken directly with…

Read More

My Favorite Residency Interview Questions

By | Uncategorized

By Jack Temple, MS IV For the past two months I have been on the road and in the air. It is “interview season”. I, like many other fourth-year medical students, went shopping for a new suit, learned how to act as my own travel agent, and zig-zagged my way across America visiting as many Internal Medicine training programs as…

Read More