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Written by Paul L. Hester, MD, www.bemedispa.com
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Tuesday, 02 June 2009 |
 I have always believed a preventive approach to optimal health must ultimately deliver the best information possible to the patient. A recent conversation with Dr. Mehmet Oz, a surgeon best known as the health expert on the Oprah Winfrey Show and author of several best selling health books, confirms that this is good medicine. According to the Office of the Surgeon General, seven of 10 Americans die each year from a preventable chronic disease such as heart disease, diabetes and many forms of cancer. In addition to the high morbidity of chronic disease, there is an associated high economic cost. As much of this cost is due to treating chronic disease, the Office of the Surgeon General has declared that disease prevention is its number one priority. Fortunately, there are growing numbers of physicians across the nation expanding their focus from sick care to well care.
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