Mednorthwest.com

Seattle Concierge Medicine MedNorthwest

WebWe focus on the health of a smaller number of patients who wish to have a superior connected care experience. A limited-size practice allows us to restore the old-fashioned …

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Learn About Seattle's Best Concierge Medical Practice

WebIn either case, your experience in a retainer-based, premium medical practice is unlike anything in health care today. Having a concierge doctor is not about being pampered, it …

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Have questions about any of our services

WebBroad scope of practice. We offer a full range of services in our Seattle concierge medical office, including annual exams, immunizations, contraception, colds and flu, high …

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Weakened Immunity and the Common Cold

WebIn the real world, colds are usually brought home by children from school and spread to the rest of the family. Cold viruses thrive at a temperature of 91-95° F, but at …

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Mental Health in Primary Care

WebThe main reason why mental health remains the ugly stepchild in primary care is money. These visits take a long time and physicians outside of the concierge …

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Throw Out Your Vitamins and Supplements

WebIn the Women’s Health Initiative, 36,000 women were randomly assigned to take vitamin D and calcium or a placebo. There was only a slight difference in the risk of …

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The Expanding Spectrum of Bipolar Disorder

Webmain disorders of mood: anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder (also called manic-depressive illness). Bipolar disorder was the most exciting of the three. A …

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Get Up and Boogie, Behavioral Activation

WebBehavioral activation believes that depression is caused by sitting on the couch, watching reruns of Oprah, and eating Ben & Jerry’s. It is caused by lying in bed …

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Pneumonia Vaccines

WebConsider a public health strategy where we give adults the PPSV23, aka the Pneumovax which will give broad coverage to many strains, but then also give the …

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Medical Articles

WebHealth statistics are one, but obviously an imperfect, measure of health care quality. In sharing some of our data, I would point out that physicians practicing in The Curious …

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Medicare Patients

WebMedicare patients are welcome in our practice. If you are on Medicare, you pay the same monthly fee as everyone else. That fee covers an annual comprehensive routine exam, …

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Stop Drinking All That Water

WebThe health benefits of drinking extra water is an urban legend, like razor blades in apples during Halloween, or swallowed chewing gum taking seven years to …

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Mediterranean Diet Update

WebThe risk of stroke or heart attack was 0.8% per year in the Mediterranean diet groups but 1.1% per year in the low-fat diet group. Extrapolating over a 10-year …

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The Curious Legend of Dr. von Basch

WebIn 1881, Dr. von Ba sch invented a mercury (or water) filled ball that was pushed over the artery at the wrist and connected to a pressure measuring device. When …

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Genomic Medicine: Health Care in the 22nd Century

WebWell, it is a sequence of DNA that tells the body how to make a particular protein. For example, the insulin gene is located on chromosome 11. Proteins are …

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