Writing Practice Prescription

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 90 million Americans now live with chronic diseases. These chronic diseases such as diabetes and arthritis result in a decreased quality of life, limited activity, and extended pain and suffering.
When you suffer with a chronic healthcare problem, you deal with many factors that [...]

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Many of us have ongoing struggles with our weight. We find that “diets” don’t work for the most part nor do most of the “gimmicks” that go around.
But here’s a question: Can a writing practice help you lose weight? Writing guru Julia Cameron of The Artist’s Way book says, “Yes.”
Check out an interview with her [...]

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by
Ellen Taliaferro, MD
Zita Surprenant, MD, MPH
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), the psychological, emotional, and physical abuse of your patients by a current or previous intimate partner affects close to four million women a year. A little over a third of these women report violent victimization. Like many other medical conditions, IPV often escalates in frequency and [...]

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