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Food is Medicine:
Crisis Calls for Doctors to Embrace New Paradigm
and Ancient Hippocratic Prescription
Featured in Chicago Tribune - Local editions
05/15/10 By: LBruzas
Have you been to a doctor lately? After a lengthy stay in the patient-lined waiting room, you get 10 minutes or less with your doctor and leave with a prescription in hand. Sound familiar?
Don’t blame your doctor though for the state of healthcare today as “physicians must face major, often daunting, roadblocks including seemingly endless bureaucracy from government and insurers to practice” according to local physician, Dr. John Principe. Dr. Principe believes that “A new paradigm is in order. Rather than prescribing a pill for what ails us, doctors of the future will be able to offer their patients the tools they need to take a pro-active role in their own well-being including the ancient Hippocratic prescription, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.””
Prompted by work with Dr. David Eisenberg, Director of Harvard Medical School's Osher Research Center and Program Director for Integrative Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Principe created the Road Map to Wellness program. The program, designed to promote wellness and reverse the factors that contribute to the metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and chronic disease facing all Americans today, incorporates food education, increased physical activity and mind-body integration for stress reduction.
Dr. John currently practices in Palos Heights and is the founder of WellBeingMD. He encourages everyone to see the powerful new documentary, The Vanishing Oath, which focuses on the crumbling foundations of medicine causing physician burn-out and patient dissatisfaction - subjects that he can identify with from personal experience and works diligently to resolve.
For more information on “Dr. John” and his Road Map to Wellness program, go to www.WellBeingMD.com or phone 708-448-9450.
For more than three decades, La Grange resident and founder of www.HealthyDining.org , Laura Bruzas has made food her medicine.
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Docs4PatientCare.orgOrganization of concerned physicians committed to the establishment of a health care system that preserves the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, promotes quality of care, supports affordable access to all Americans, and protects patients' freedom of choice.
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The Vanishing Oath -
Through the delicate and perceptive view of a camera lens, Ryan and Nancy, carefully dissect the root problems: Physician burnout and patient dissatisfaction. As they open the soul of medicine, it becomes quite clear to the viewer that increasing bureaucratic interference, the daunting pressure of malpractice litigation and the unrealistic expectations of the American public for physician perfection has created this dis-ease of a profession.
If you love yourself, your family, your profession and ultimately the future of health care in this nation, Please get involved! If we don't act now, Who will Take the Oath?
By the year 2025, the United States will have a deficit of 200,000 physicians. What good is "healthcare reform" if there is nobody left to deliver it?
Release date May 2010. Trailers and more information here:
The Vanishing Oath - Crash Cart Productions
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