Sunday is Father’s Day, so this week is Men’s Health Week and this month is Men’s Health Month. Now men’s health isn’t an issue just for fathers, all men should pay more attention to their health. Right now, women live an average of about four years longer than men in the United States. Some of this may be because women are more likely to visit doctors for annual examinations and preventative services than men. In the Patient Files, CHC recommends…
This morning, I awoke and tweeted a few lines from James Joyce’s Ulysses. After all, today is Bloomsday. Joyce’s Ulysses traced the wanderings of Leopold Bloom through Dublin on this day in 1904, and literary enthusiasts around the world celebrate this day in many different ways. NPR ran a story on people tweeting Ulysses, and I even added a line from Ulysses as I checked in at work on Foursquare. As I stopped to wish a coworker Happy Bloomsday, the…
If one question caught my attention and summed up my thoughts from the Weitzman Symposium last week, it was Jay Parkinson’s question, “How Can We Inspire Health?” It was a brilliant exploration of the topic. But the symposium is now over and we need to get back to work; moving beyond thinking about the questions to acting upon them. That is what happened Saturday at our Day Street Community Health Center in Norwalk. There is more to health than a…
Welcome to the live streams for the Weitzman Symposium. In order to make the conference more broadly available and encourage participation, we have set up a CoverItLive page where you can participate, and a video stream from Ustream.TV We’ve set up both of these to work with the #Weitzman hashtag, so you can also participate via Twitter with your favorite TweetChat tool.
An alert flashed up on my screen this morning letting me know that the Weitzman Symposium is tomorrow. It is the Sixth Annual Weitzman Symposium and I’m pretty excited because it is my first Weitzman Symposium and the first Weitzman Symposium that will be streamed online. It is an impressive group of health care leaders from around the country that will be attending. Coming in from Washington DC is Garth Graham, MD, MPH, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, U.S….
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