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Monday, December 19, 2011
Victor S. Sierpina, MD
This book is an autobiography of the soul of Dr. Lee Lipsenthal in which he describes both his living and dying. Lee was a well known holistic physician whose life work evolved from being an internist in private practice, to being a researcher with Dean Ornish's prevention programs, and finally an internationally known presenter on creating a balance in a medical professional life.
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February 06, 2012
Over the past months, we have been sharing with you book reviews from the Weil Integrative Medicine Library in a variety of areas. These have included integrative practice in oncology, women’s health, pediatrics, gastroenterology, rheumatology, psychiatry, and cardiology. Upcoming volumes will include neurology, men’s health, and more. These are enormously helpful books in assembling the evidence and practice of integrative medicine. Whatever your specialty, you’ll find something for you.
As much as we all like to read to further our clinical education and practice skills, let’s face it, changing our daily practice often requires the support and encouragement of other professionals. Though we only grow when we extend beyond our comfort zone, it is comforting to know others have gone before us and we aren’t out there alone. New practices and new knowledge in medicine are often hard to adapt as we all are prone to be stuck in the ways we have always done things since residency or fellowship. Also, we all owe it to our patients to be sure newly proposed integrative methods are rational, safe, and effective.
One of the best ways to move from theory and knowledge to application is to attend CME conferences where we meet and greet fellow physicians, hear what they are doing in the integrative medicine space, and learn from reputable speakers about the evidence and the practice of integrative methods. These often include those we haven’t used in our own practices. Recent changes in CME rules have encouraged CME courses to follow-up and see what impact their programs have actually made on attendees. Receiving information and applying it are two different orders of learning. Such courses are increasingly targeted to changing practice, not just increasing knowledge.
So, as I sat in a plane returning from San Diego to Houston, after both presenting and attending the annual Scripps Natural Supplements conference, it occurred to me that sharing some of the learning opportunities I had just experienced in San Diego with our Houston area physicians could be helpful to y’all.
I started by compiling a list of my favorite annual and upcoming conferences where a physician can go to a nice venue, learn something new and practical for Monday morning, and feel comfortable adding some new integrative techniques to his/her practice.
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Victor S. Sierpina, MD
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