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How many of these men were still alive fi ve minutes after this picture was taken?

oday marks the anniversary of a pivotal date in world history. D-Day, the

assault on the beaches of France which ultimately spelled the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, was seventy years ago today. D-Day was the beginning of the end for a terrible battle that had raged across the entire planet for parts of six years (1939 - 1945). Entire cities with millions of inhabitants were blown to smithereens, along with tiny, seemingly insignifi cant specks of land in the Pacifi c that were fought over at tremendous cost. Historians still don’t know the true death toll of World War II, but estimates range from more than 60 million killed up to nearly 85 million. Those numbers include all deaths directly or indirectly caused by World War II, military and civilian. They include those who died as the direct result of combat, as well as other war-induced causes like famine and disease epidemics. Those 60 million or more must be added to as many as 40 million who died during World War I, which ended barely 20 years before the outbreak of the second world war. World Wars I & II rank as the fi rst- and sixth-most deadly wars in human history. The World War II death

toll for Americans alone was 405,399, while 116,516 are said to have died during World War I. Both of those combined, however, don’t reach the death toll of America’s deadliest war. That dubious honor goes to the Civil War, during which an estimated 625,000 Americans were killed.

Another anniversary There was another observance, however, that marked even more tragic and untimely deaths than any of these wars. Did you miss it? Last Friday, May 31, was designated by the World Health Organization as World

No Tobacco Day. It’s observed annually on May 31. Why? According to WHO, “the tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced.” How big? Worldwide, tobacco kills nearly 6 million people per year — worldwide, approximately one person every six seconds — including 600,000 non-smokers who die as the result of exposure to second-hand smoke. The non-smoker body count alone is greater than all US fatalities in World Wars I & II combined, but this death toll

occurs every single year. And it’s not getting any better: WHO says that if current rates continue, the annual global death toll could reach 8 million by 2030. As it is right now, tobacco eventually kills up to half its users. WHO statistics show that tobacco caused approximately 100 million deaths in the 20th century. Sound like a lot of deaths? Tobacco hasn’t even gotten started: at current rates, WHO estimates tobacco-related deaths in this century could reach 1 billion. And you thought World War II’s 60 million deaths was a lot.

Why do people smoke? Good question. In the face of all the evidence against smoking, one would expect smokers would be a rarity.There are many reasons why they aren’t. One of the most insidious is addiction. Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs known, holding users in its powerful grip more tightly than most illegal drugs. Most smokers want to quit, even those who truly enjoy their habit, but they often wage the battle against their addiction without outside assistance. Failures and relapses are common. Many smokers thought it might be a cool temporary habit during high school or a means to achieve calm nerves in college. They never dreamed that decades later they would still be smoking. Denial is another major factor. Tobacco is a gradual killer, so there is a lag of several years between the onset of smoking and the appearance of symptoms, if they appear at all. If a smoker knows one heavy lifetime smoker who’s as strong and healthy as an ox, that’s all the proof he needs to keep on puffi ng.

Can the battle be won? If Hitler could be defeated, nicotine addiction can be too. How?

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this year may make purchasing health insurance in the individual market more accessible. Due to these reforms and the rising costs of health coverage, some employers have considered helping employees pay for individual health insurance policies instead of offering an employer-sponsored plan. On May 13, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued FAQs addressing the consequences for employers that do not establish a health insurance plan for their employees, but instead reimburse employees for premiums they pay for individual health insurance (either inside or outside of an Exchange). These arrangements are known as employer payment plans. Before reviewing the May 13 rulings, a brief overview of some of the IRS opinions leading up to last month’s clarifi cation.

Background on Employer Payment Plans In Revenue Ruling 61-146, the IRS provided that if an employer reimburses an employee’s substantiated premiums for non-employer sponsored hospital and medical insurance, the payments are excluded from the employee’s gross income under Internal Revenue Code (Code) section 106. This guidance allowed an employer to pay an employee’s premiums for individual health insurance coverage without the employee paying tax on the amount. IRS Notice 2013-54, issued on Sept. 13, 2013, referred to these types of arrangements as “employer payment plans.” These employer payment plans are considered to be group health plans subject to the ACA’s market reforms, including the annual limit prohibition and the preventive

care coverage requirement. The Notice clarifi es that these arrangements provided to employees cannot be integrated with individual policies, and thus fails to satisfy the ACA’s market reforms. As a result, effective for 2014 plan years, these plans are essentially prohibited.

Consequences for Employers Because employer payment plans do not comply with the ACA’s market reforms, the IRS indicated in the FAQs that these arrangements may be subject to an excise tax of $100 per day for each applicable employee ($36,500 per year per employee) under Code Section 4980D. However, an employer payment plan generally does not include an arrangement under which an employee may have an after-tax amount applied toward health coverage, or may take that amount in cash compensation. Thus, premium reimbursement arrangements made on an after-tax basis will still be permitted.

For further explanation of the ACA/PPACA provisions outlined in this article, please refer to the following resources:www.hhs.govwww.irs.govwww.healthcare.govwww.cms.gov

Russell T. Head is a Partner and Chief Visionary Architect with Group & Benefi ts Consultants, Inc., Augusta’s largest, privately held, locally owned employee benefi ts consulting fi rm.

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Monday, May 12th I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. And in a matter of 72 hours, I felt like the whole world was watching my life unravel right before their very eyes. It was the most humiliating and hurtful experience I have ever had in my life. I wouldn’t wish my worst enemy to experience what I did seven days before Election Day. You may have seen my interview on News 12 or WAGT Channel 26 over the past few weeks. If you haven’t, I would recommend so you can get a glimpse of what has been going on in my world over the past 20 years and why my exposed personal fi nancial situation collapsed as abruptly as it did. Hurting my family, executive and core campaign

team, supporters and friends devastates me the most. I am deeply sorry and ask for their forgiveness. I was more or less out of touch for seven days. Not because I was embarrassed and didn’t want to face anyone. But because I needed to get away from the “noise,” both positive and negative, of Facebook, social media, television, radio and newspaper news, and people. Those days in silence, so to speak, were the best thing that could have happened to me. On Thursday, May 15th when I suspended my campaign, I thought I was going to die. It was the worst day of my life. But on the day before Election, May 19th, when I completely exited the race, I was a different person. And it was all because of God. God made it clear that I couldn’t and didn’t have to endure months of personal attacks, which were not only affecting me, but my family and team as well. We knew, and we were warned, that they wouldn’t stop. Some people have said I should have stayed in the race. My respectful response to them is, “I know you mean well, but you are not in my shoes.” When you’re faced with devastation as I was, your only source of renewal, hope, trust, wisdom, faith and guidance, is from God. Period. I found solace in

reading scriptures and studying His word. The silence allowed me to hear Him. Jesus slipped away as often as he could to get away from the crowds. It helped me too. My life over the past 20 years has been so busy taking care of others, wanting to make a difference, but not taking care of myself. But God also revealed something else. I had too much pride, was too independent and in denial regarding the magnitude of my fi nancial situation. As a small business owner for 22 years, it’s easy to get consumed by trying to get the next contract or business deal so you can stay afl oat. But when they don’t pay you, or are slow to pay, or cancel, suddenly it puts business owners in a bind, especially when there are no reserves. And I failed to let family or friends know I needed help over the years until it was

too late and the situation grew out of control. More importantly, I failed to allow God to help me with my burdens. There’s so much more, but it’s a story I could fi ll a book with — and I just might do that. I had to face some harsh realities that were hurtful to me because everyone else saw the mess I’ve made. But even more so because I realized I wasn’t focused on God. I wasn’t making Him fi rst. I believe God allowed this public train wreck to happen so He could get my attention. I had to listen. And it has given me peace. The weight I’ve been carrying for many, many years is gone. I didn’t sleep or eat well for fi ve days in a row. But the peace came, and rest came, and I got back on my feet. There is another chapter in my life beginning now, but this time God is in charge. It’s Kingdom building time. I

know the best is yet to come. But it will NOT be politics. Oh, trust me it still hurts. A lot. But I am at peace. I’m going to take care of myself, resolve my obligations and mend relationships that have been scarred. God has some exciting plans for me so that I can impact people and the world in a way I have never dreamed of. He’s also taking me out of my comfort zone. The world will witness the greatness and power of God – He will receive all the Glory. I’m very excited about that.

I am so thankful Dan Pearson has given me the opportunity to write for this publication for the past fi ve years. My focus has been mental health and mental well-being. Now it is time to focus on my own personal and professional mental health and well-being. With that said, I am going to take a sabbatical from writing my columns in The Augusta Medical Examiner so that I can spend time trying to repair the damage caused by my public train wreck and get back on track. I am so blessed to have friends and supporters like you. Thank you so much for being there for me. Thank you for reading my columns. I am sharing my story with you because I pray that my painful experience will be a blessing to you in some way.

Helen Blocker-Adams is Executive Director of the Southeast Enterprise Institute; mental health advocate; and youth advocate. You can email her at hba@hbagroup-intl.com or visit her website at www.helenblockeradams.com, www.hbagroup-intl.com or www.authorhouse.com

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vomiting in 15 minutes. Cost: $600.00. If you can fi nd your doctor’s home at midnight and beat on his door announcing your wife is vomiting in your car, the doctor’s wife might have you arrested for disturbing the peace. Or worse still, shoot you through the door for attempted home invasion. It is scenarios like these that are heralding a new form of medical practice: Concierge medicine. You and your doctor have a special arrangement that bypasses the standard Hospital-ER-Insurance-Medicare-Obamacare maze. You have a one-on-one relationship with your doctor. You pay him directly, without third part intervention. His overhead is lower because he does not need paper pushers, high dollar computers with super expensive programs, and billing specialists. He spends

more time with you. You get personalized medical care. You are a patient with a disease, not a disease with a patient. All that is good. But there is an even newer endeavor: house call physicians. They make come right to your home, or to hotels for travelers and vacationers. They are available in Jacksonville, Atlanta, and now Augusta. Let’s say you come home exhausted from a hard day of work. About midnight, your child or spouse develops chills, a worsening cough, and a fever 102.5°. It may be fl u and will subside in about fi ve days. Or it may be bacterial bronchitis and prompt intervention with antibiotics is necessary. You must chose. Option 1: Spend a few hours and several hundred dollars in the ER to see a doctor? You will be up all night and miss work the next day.

Option 2: Administer aspirin, cuddle the feverish loved one all night long, hoping for the best until morning when you desperately seek a doctor with an afternoon appointment available? You will be up all night and miss work the next day. Option 3: call a house call physician who will promptly make a house call for less than half of what the ER costs? House call physicians are faster and more economical. It is less tiring on you, and your loved one gets immediate care. And you won’t miss work the next day. This is what good medical care used to be: you and your doctor, with no one in between. My, my. How we have advanced. The newest thing in medicine is how I practiced 40 years ago.

Bad Billy Laveau is a retired MD with a pointed sense of humor. Bad Billy speaks and entertains at public and private events for audiences not subject to cardiac seizure secondary to overwhelming laughter and glee BadBilly@knology.net or 706-306-9397

y fi rst practice was in a small town

without a hospital. I was the third (and by far the youngest) doctor in town. We had a budding nursing home that had grown to 100+ beds and was a showplace of effi ciency and quality healthcare. Funeral homes provided the rarely needed ambulance service at no charge. Regular offi ce hours were 5 days a week, plus walk-ins on Saturday from 9:00 to noon and Sunday morning from 9:00 to 10:00. We saw everyone who could fi nd the front door, no appointment required. Payment was never mentioned prior to service. We made house calls in the evening for those too sick to come to the offi ce, but not sick enough to go 27 miles to the nearest hospital and emergency room. About 90% of my patients were treated in the offi ce, about 5% in the patient’s home, and about 5% in an examining room at my home at night and during weekends. Less than 1% went

to the hospital or an ER. Back then almost every car had a gun in it, and consequently drive-by shootings, carjackings, road rage, and parking lot fi ghts were unheard of. We did not have a shooting in the 3 years I was there. (There may be a connection there, I don’t know, but those are the facts.) My, my. How our world and medicine have changed. These days you may wait weeks or months to see a doctor. The ER has more cars around it than a Holiness revival tent. The ER is full of garden variety colds, fl u, tension headaches, and chronic disorders because patients couldn’t get into a doctor’s offi ce during the day. Sometimes they wait hours, even though advertisements tout “15 minute ER waiting time.” A friend of mine took his wife with a migraine and hyperemesis to the ER. She vomited three more times in a trashcan in the waiting room while waiting four hours to see a doctor. A shot of Phenergan stopped the

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WE’RE BEGGING YOUWe’re never too proud to beg. What we’re begging for is Medicine in the First Person stories. With your help, we’d like to make this a feature in every issue of the Medical Examiner. After all, everybody has a story of something health- or medicine-related, and lots of people have many stories. Send your interesting (or even semi-interesting) stories to the Medical Examiner, PO Box 397, Augusta, GA 30903 or e-mail to Dan@AugustaRx.com. Thanks!

“I lost 23 pounds.”

“I was a battlefi eld medic.”

“We had triplets.”

“My leg was broken in three places.”

“The cause was a mystery for a long time.”

“The ambulance crashed.”

“I sure learned my lesson.”“It was a terrible tragedy.”

“And that’s when I fell.”

“Now THAT hurt!”

“It seemed like a miracle.”

“He doesn’t remember a thing.”

“She saved my life.”

“It took 48 stitches.”

“The nearest hospital was 30 miles away.”

“I thought, ‘Well, this is it’.”

“I retired from medicine seven years ago.” “It was my fi rst year

of medical school.”

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“I’m not supposed to be alive.”“This was on my third day in Afghanistan.”

“He was just two when he died.”

“They took me to the hospital by helicopter.”

“The smoke detector woke me up.”

Everybody has a story. Tell us yours.“Turned out it was just indigestion.”

Here’s our “No Rules Rules.” We’ll publish your name and city, or keep you anonymous. Your choice. Length? Up to you. Subject? It can be a monumental medical event or just a stubbed toe. It can make us laugh or make us cry. One thing we’re not interested in, however: please, no tirades against a certain doctor or hospital. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

“At fi rst I thought it was something I ate.”

Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.“ “— Marcus Aurelius

Not without a full-scale assault. If Hitler or Patton or Eisenhower or Ulysses Grant or Robert E. Lee quit after their fi rst or second or third defeat, wars would be very short. They never are. Be prepared to do battle and wage war until you have won. If you can imagine a heroine junkie trying to go cold turkey, you can imagine what some smokers experience trying to quit. Don’t go there. Talk to your doctor about assistance available to you. Call any major hospital in the Augusta area and inquire about their smoking cessation programs. Speaking of which, any hospital that has designated smoking areas has a truly curious policy, indeed. Not in 1954 maybe, but defi nitely in 2014. That should be rectifi ed at once, and our local hospitals and healthcare providers who do have

no-smoking policies should continually review and refi ne their enforcement policies and efforts. For its part, WHO uses its annual World No Tobacco Day to advocate higher taxes as one of the ways to discourage tobacco use, especially among youth and poor people, two of the favorite targets of tobacco marketing efforts worldwide. Every 10% increase in tax-induced tobacco prices causes about a 5% drop in tobacco use, according to WHO fi gures. If you’re interested, contact your elected representatives, strongly urging them to wield their legislative pens to help quash “one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced.” Do it today as your way of remembering those who died for a very different cause in a deadly battle in France seventy years ago today.

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Cannellini Bean and Avocado Hummus This recipe is a great alternative to plain hummus or guacamole. It’s a lovely appetizer that combines white beans and avocado, but instead of chickpeas it has Cannellini beans. This traditional Italian bean gives the dip a completely different taste. I also love that you are getting a double dose of nutrition with the avocado and beans. Avocado has over 20 vitamins and minerals and it’s mono and polyunsaturated fat content make it a great substitute for foods high in saturated fat. The beans in the recipe have twice as much iron as beef and they are a low fat, high fi ber food. I actually saw Giada De Laurentiis make a very similar recipe on her cooking show about six months ago. I would watch The Food Network from sun up until sun down. Kind of like how my husband watches college football from 10:00am until Midnight every Saturday during the football season. I love to watch all the different cooking shows and I get tons of recipe ideas from them. Now that we eat a clean diet I try to clean those recipes up and make them more healthy and nutritional. Make this recipe to share with

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What you’ll need:• 2 avocados, peeled, seed removed and coarsely chopped• 1/2 Cup of organic arugula• 1 can of Cannellini Beans, rinsed and drained (I use Eden Organic brand)• 2 Tbsp. of fl at leaf Italian parsley• 3 cloves of garlic, chopped• Juice of 1/2 lemon

• 2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil• 2-3 Tbsp. of water• 1 Tsp. of Mrs. Dash Southwest Chipotle Seasoning Blend• 1 Tsp. of salt (more or less as you prefer)• A pinch of cracked black pepper

Directions: Place avocado, arugula, cannellini beans, parsley, garlic, lemon juice, salt and pepper along with chipotle seasoning into a high speed blender.Blend for 1 minute, then add the olive oil a little at a time while the mixture is still

blending by pouring it through the opening on the lid. (Do not remove lid) Once olive oil is incorporated, slowly add the water a little at a time until desired consistency is reached. Chill and serve with organic gluten free blue corn tortilla chips.

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lmost everyone has a little or a lot of extra weight that they want to lose. There are many options on the

market to help with this cause. Just remember that your old lifestyle put you into this predicament, and only a lifestyle change will permanently cure the problem. That being said a combination approach tends to work the best. This is true in so many parts of the medical fi eld. Weight, or to be more precise, extra weight, is such a problem that the American Medical Association just classifi ed obesity as a disease. That is a big step in addressing the American tendency to overeat and gain unnecessary weight. So let’s look at the options in getting your weight under control. This is a pharmacy column so I will talk about the drugs that suppress your appetite and generally cause some weight loss. This is a very small part of the total equation in a truly successful plan. “Diet pills,” as they are called, should only be a jumpstart to get you started. Pills should not be used as your sole method of controlling your weight. All diet pills have side effects that can be just as problematic as the obesity itself. The older and more affordable medicines tend to cause nervousness, jitteriness, and in some cases rapid heart rate and increased blood pressure. Let’s not trade a few pounds for a lifetime of stress on your heart. It’s the only one you have, after all. There is a newer medicine that suppresses the appetite without cardiac excitement, but it costs two to three hundred dollars a month and may have other side effects, like depression or lethargy. Also some popular antidepressants may have serious interactions with this new medication. So I support a short term course of diet pills only if you need that extra boost to get started. But let’s

talk maintenance therapy. Weight loss occurs when the numbers of calories burned each day is higher than the number of calories consumed. It sounds simple but the basics of nutrition and proper ways to eat could fi ll this whole edition of the Medical Examiner. I will

attempt to give a few basic tips and hopefully get you off to that elusive good start. A pound is the equivalent of 3,500 calories, so if you want to lose a pound a week you must burn fi ve hundred more calories per day than you eat (500 calories x 7 days = 3,500). Let’s start with ways to manipulate that weight loss equation. There are two main elements: intake and output. Let’s start by lowering the input, which means eating less while still taking in adequate nutrition. Eat more fruits and vegetables

and less fats, and you will decrease the calories in your diet. Another good trick is to decrease the portion size of your meals. Use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate for instance, or impose a ban on second helpings. Either way can lower your caloric intake. Another part of the equation is increasing the calories burned per day. This is where we all have to work for it. You can start an exercise program with little to no out of pocket cost. Push-ups, sit-ups and other exercises done in your home are free, as is walking in your neighborhood, at a park or at the mall. You don’t have to spend big bucks on a gym membership to exercise. It can be as simple as using stairs instead of an elevator and parking across the parking lot instead of waiting for a close space to come open. Any combination of more calories burned and less calories eaten can result in a trimmer waistline and a healthier outlook on life. We all want to spend a few extra years with our loved ones, so let’s get busy and lose that extra weight. We have started a diet and exercise program at our home and the results so far have been noticeable to our friends and family. If we can do it, so can YOU! End this year healthier than you started it. You have this paper and its nutrition column to help you.

Questions about this article or suggestions for future columns can be sent to us at cjdlpdrph@bellsouth.net

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Ask a DietitianIusually see clients in my

offi ce because they have exhausted all efforts. Typically it begins with someone seeking to lose weight by working out six or seven days a week. Diets are strict, following exactly what a trainer told them or what they read in a magazine or an online forum. They are precisely counting everything right down to the gram. But then something unexpected happens: they do not lose weight; some gain body fat. What in the world is happening? The initial automatic reaction is to increase the intensity and duration of work outs. Calories are further restricted. Yet as counterintuitive as it may seem, sometimes eating more and working out less is the only solution to this scenario. While this advice may be diffi cult for hard-core fi tness enthusiasts and chronic dieters to swallow, it is necessary to recover the body and reset metabolism. Overtraining is defi ned by the National Academy of Science and Medicine as an accumulation of training and/or non-training stress resulting in long-term decrease in performance capacity. When it comes to achieving your fi tness and body goals, there is a point where you no longer see benefi ts. The best approach is to overtraining is preventing it from occurring in the fi rst place. Since overtraining is a condition that gradually grows worse, it makes sense to be mindful of its warning signs, a host of physiological and psychological signals: mood changes such as irritability and depression, and the inability to concentrate are among the easiest to detect. Physical changes can include an altered heart rate and blood pressure, especially an elevated resting heart rate early in the morning. And overtraining causes injuries like abnormal aches and pains, muscle atrophy, or easily putting on fat despite low calorie dieting is also seen. Interestingly, overtraining is almost always accompanied by appetite suppression despite increasing energy expenditure.

In order to understand this phenomenon we have to look at the relationship between under-eating and training. Eating enough calories to meet the energy and recovery requirements of your body is good insurance against overtraining. The minimum number of calories your body needs to function at rest is your resting metabolic rate (RMR). RMR plus daily activity and additional exercise expenditures determines total energy needs. You can fi nd online calculators for your RMR, or contact a local dietitian. Depriving your body of the calories it needs, not just to survive, but also to sustain effective exercise is self-defeating. Metabolism is a natural process; your body generally balances it to meet your individual needs. During times of diet restriction, the body automatically compensates by slowing down these bodily processes and conserving calories. If you don’t supply the fuel, you can’t avoid side effects. One of the most noticeable will be loss of strength, because you will not have energy to perform. Body fat may actually increase as the body conserves fat while utilizing other sources for energy. Muscles are not built during work, but rather during subsequent rest and rebuilding. Without adequate nourishment and rest, muscle tone will weaken rather than grow. Weight loss can actually be muscle loss, since muscle weighs more than fat and the body is actually gaining fat. The body is like a car. If you don’t fi ll the tank it will not travel far. A full tank makes the full trip. In order to achieve goals with weight, training, or general health, the tank needs the appropriate nutrients. What is appropriate for your tank? You can use an online calculator such as www.myfi tnesspal.com or www.fi tday.com. Once you have determined your maintenance needs you can adjust your intake based on your personal goal. Do not subtract more than your RMR as this will put you back in the adaptive

phase. If your goal is weight loss, subtract 300 calories from your daily maintenance needs. This number may be more depending on how you accounted for exercise in your calculations. If your goal is to build muscle, add calories. So what should you eat? Begin the day with breakfast to start fi lling your tank. Include carbohydrates and protein in each meal/snack. Eat three meals with two or three snacks.

This keeps glycogen levels stable and muscles nourished. This also decreases the chance of overeating. All food groups should be incorporated into your day. The chart below includes examples from each food group. Clients often say they cannot eat before exercising, but it’s better to have something small that contains carbohydrates thirty minutes to one hour before exercising. Exercising in a fasting or glycogen-depleted state leads to fatigue and decreased performance. For optimal recovery after exercise, have a snack or meal containing a combination of carbohydrate and protein, such as chocolate milk, yogurt and granola, or fruit and peanut butter. When you have been exercising and under-eating for a long time, it may be diffi cult to make these changes. It takes

a leap of faith to eat more and workout less when the opposite is highly ingrained. Truthfully, you may feel worse before you feel better because you miss the release exercise provided. You may gain a few pounds of water weight as your body readjusts to the changes you are making. This is temporary and usually resolves within a few weeks. I encourage my clients to simply trust the process. It is the only way to break the cycle.

by Amy Culberson, MS, RD, LDwww.amyculbersonmsrd.comamyculbersonmsrdld@gmail.comAmy has a private practice in Evans, Georgia. She specializes in weight management, sports nutrition, eating disorders, allergies and digestive disorders. She also performs metabolic testing to determine individual caloric needs.

CARBOHYDRATE Toast, cereal, granola, pasta, rice, potato, starchy vegetablesPROTEIN Eggs, nut butters (for protein and fat), meat, soyDAIRY Milk, cheese, yogurtFRUIT Whole fruit, 1 cup frozen, 1/2-cup cannedFAT 1 tsp. oils, butter, 1 tbsp. salad dressing, 2 tbsp. hummus

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The Short White Coat

A med student’s notebook

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”

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in surgery, and spent the fi rst 4 weeks of it with the Surgical Oncology service. So that means I spent a lot of times in the Cancer Center and working with patients receiving cancer treatment. I also have spent a couple of nights working in the Emergency Dept for Trauma Call. Altogether, my experiences have been enriching yet humbling. It is terrifying to think about how randomly misfortunes or illness can strike a person. What could they have possibly done to deserve it? Or avoid it? Or recover from it? I would desperately analyze the situations I saw patients

confront. What if they had gotten a colonoscopy 10 years earlier like their doctor recommended? What if they had worn seat belts or not driven under the infl uence of alcohol? What if they had done breast self-exams more regularly instead of just waiting for mammograms? What if they had not smoked 2 packs of cigarettes daily for the past 20 years? I would obsess and analyze it all. What can I learn from this? What can I tell other people to do to minimize their own risk of developing illnesses or getting into accidents? Car accidents alone are terrifying to worry about: in a split second everything in your life

can change and possibly be irreversibly damaged. Victims can have everything from a wrecked car to permanent spinal cord damage to the guilt of a death on their conscience. It is heavy. Extremely heavy to think about. I sometimes wondered if I could handle it on a daily basis working in medicine. I being reminded far too often how fragile our lives are and how haphazard good health or fortune seems to be. The truth is yes, you can get colonoscopies, mammograms, or designated drivers to try to keep you safe. You probably could decrease your risk of lung cancer vastly by quitting the smoking habit. And we all should be vigilant and proactive in such manners. But there are a hell of a lot of people who do live their lives by the book, doing everything correctly, and planning ahead for future and disaster. And yet disaster still strikes. It is mind-numbing and nauseating. Is life just a roulette wheel, and we are all just waiting for our number to be randomly selected? But then I met a patient at the VA hospital one afternoon during one of my general surgery clinic days. He had colon cancer, and as a result almost his entire colon had been removed. He was given a colostomy bag and 6 months to live … 3 years ago. That is correct. It is a true fact that most of the time, when a doctor gives you an approximation of how much time you have left,

they really don’t know any more than you do. They can go with the facts they are given, the literature they read, expert opinions they hear, and the experience they have had. But honestly, let’s be serious for a minute - and I am not trying to make a religious statement or argument – but I do believe that how much time each person is allotted on this Earth is both within and without their

control. Yes we can be proactive about health-saving practices and screen or protect ourselves from the malignant and be the poster child for proactive health get hit by a drunk driver tomorrow while driving to the gym. We can give up on ourselves when we hear a bad diagnosis, or we can fi ght. Or we can choose to just accept the truth and the facts, and live out our fi nal days in peace – which is entirely our own prerogative in itself. The choice to undergo chemotherapy for cancer or just choose palliative care for pain and symptom management is an individual decision-making process. But at the end of the day, we are all dying. And at the same time we are all still living. Do any of us really know how much time we actually have left? As a doctor phrased it to the patient who came in for his check-up - years after being diagnosed with, treated for, and ultimately beating colon cancer against expected odds: “You can either be someone who is dying of cancer, or be someone living with cancer.”

Because really, we are all dying of something. All of our days are limited. Someday we will all leave this Earth. Every day is a gift and can be taken away quicker than we can sneeze. But as long as we draw breath into our bodies, we are living too. It is strange to reconcile… but everyday we are both living and dying at the same time. Some people are living with cancer. Some are living with

Alzheimer’s disease. Some are living with alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver. And some are living healthily and entirely disease-free but have completely different struggles that they face. It really is a bit of a roulette wheel, this life we have. But isn’t it all about perspective? How are we going to approach each day? Bitter and resentful about the poor hand we have been dealt? Or grateful that, for better or worse, we have been dealt another day? Everyone has their burdens, and everyone has their illnesses. It is just a matter of whether we are going to live with these burdens and illnesses, or just merely be dying from them. Will we love the light? Or will we love the darkness? Or will we love them both for what they show us and what they are? The truth is that we cannot have light without a darkness to be illuminated, and there cannot be anything dark without a light to shroud. Such is life, so it seems, and so it will be.

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LOSING A PATIENT TWICE I had some down time in New York this past weekend and spent some of it looking at what Swedish physicians are writing in their blogs. (I am a Swedish physician, too, but I have lived most of my professional life in the U.S.) I came across a brief little piece by a 25-year-old Swedish resident. She connected with a patient on her ward in his fi fties (her father’s age), who seemed to be doing OK, but died overnight while she was off duty. I tried to remember the fi rst patient I lost, but I couldn’t. There have been so many in my 29 years as a doctor, some lost prematurely, but most in their old age and after a long illness. A few months ago, a former patient who no longer lived in our town died. He was only a few years older than my own children and the news of his death affected me deeply, even though I hadn’t seen him for years. Bobby Smith was a normal, rambunctious, ten year-old until one day, my second winter in town, when we got a radio call from the ambulance. In those days we had all-volunteer EMTs, and none had any advanced training, so the doctors at our clinic would get called to go on ambulance runs. It had snowed heavily that morning and school was cancelled. By noon the snowfall had stopped, and the sun came out. Bobby went sledding right in front of his house. At fi rst, the new powder slowed him down, but every time Bobby followed the same path down the hill he went faster and farther. The last time, he ended up in the middle of the road. Samuel Trumbull, the town selectman, didn’t have a chance to avoid hitting Bobby as he lay on his sled in the middle of the road. The ambulance had twenty miles to go on the winding, slippery road to the hospital. Bobby was unconscious, not breathing, but with a good pulse and blood pressure. I maintained his airway and bagged him the whole way. He pulled through, but with severe brain damage. He never spoke again. He would make grimaces and smile or poke at you. He was bed bound and incontinent. I did house calls there for a few years. Eventually they wheeled him into his old classroom, mainstreaming him, as they called it. His parents split up, and Bobby ended up moving away from town. I would still often think of Bobby, and poor selectman Trumbull. His life was never the same after that day either. Suddenly, one day this spring, a patient whose maiden name was Smith – something I never refl ected on – cancelled an appointment because her brother had died. When I saw her a week later, she mentioned who her brother was. All of a sudden I was back in that ambulance, bagging this little boy, who could have been my son. I lost Bobby all over again, but this time I lost him forever.

Speaking of blogs, the Medical Examiner blog is found at www.AugustaRx.com/news. Visit daily!

“His life was never the same after that day.”

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Diet? Or exercise? Which is the better option to pursue if you’re trying to lose weight? A couple of recently published studies (2013, actually) shed light on this common question. In one, researchers compared the daily energy expenditures of average Westerners with members of a hunter-gatherer tribe in northern Tanzania. Although men in this tribe typically walk about seven miles a day, researchers were surprised to discover their daily calories burned was about the same as their sedentary Western counterparts. The second study found that when people begin exercising their resting metabolic rate (Sound familiar? See more info about this on page 9) went down. So if their diet did not change, they would actually gain weight by beginning to exercise. Although the two studies were unrelated, they make a valid point that exercise alone is

not the key factor. Another crucial behavior noted in many studies: when people begin to exercise they tend to give themselves a free pass at meal time. “I can eat more now because I’ll burn it off later.” That may merely be a subconscious thought, but conscious or not, it’s common. The bottom line is that weight loss rarely works without a change in diet. However, even if exercise is not the key to weight loss, it offers other benefi ts: reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some cancers; reducing stress and anxiety; and improving mood, among others.

Aspirin news Bayer, the company whose namesake gave us aspirin, recently asked the FDA for permission to change its product labeling to refl ect aspirin’s role in heart attack and stroke prevention. Not only did the FDA say no, they also said the evidence

does not support the general use of aspirin in stroke and heart attack prevention. The report cited “serious risks” associated with the use of aspirin, mainly from bleeding in the stomach and brain. However, among patients who already have clear coronary risk factors (such as a history of heart attack or stroke), the FDA says for those patients the benefi ts of aspirin outweigh the risks. Although not every physician or organization agrees with the FDA, what really matters is what your physician says. Make it a point to ask during your next appointment.

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From the Bookshelf Many of us have our chosen heroes within the medical profession: perhaps we admire nurses the most for their vital but often thankless and unheralded work in the trenches of medical care; maybe we’ve had cancer, so an oncologist is our personal hero; or our child’s life was saved by a doctor, so pediatrics is on our personal pedestal. For me, the pinnacle of medicine is the ER trauma surgeon. These men and women don’t have the luxury of many things other doctors take for granted and, in fact, insist upon. You can’t ask your podiatrist to check your sore shoulder, for instance, and even if you could, you would have to make an appointment weeks ahead of time. An ER physician, on the other hand, might treat a sore foot and an injured shoulder in back-to-back patients. The word predictability isn’t even in the trauma surgeon’s dictionary. Check if you don’t believe me. While you and I might be stressed beyond the breaking point by a steady stream of unannounced arrivals in full

cardiac arrest, perforated by bullets and knives, victims of beatings and blunt force trauma, and the entire rest of the trauma rainbow, there are people who enjoy the challenge and actually thrive on the daily adrenaline rush. One of those people is Dr. James Cole, our author du jour. What’s cool about this book is that it seems he has never heard of HIPAA. If you haven’t either, HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) protects patient privacy, often to ridiculous extremes. But Dr. Cole, spins tale after tale in chapter after chapter, and he does so in extreme detail.

Each chapter is essentially a thorough study of a particular patient, or sometimes two, who was wheeled into Cole’s emergency department. The names have certainly been changed, but the tales of trauma treatment are so detailed they are practically suture-by-suture. If you like reading well-written accounts of heroic medical interventions, this is certainly the book for you. Although each chapter is extremely detailed medically (including photographs), Cole sometimes writes with the fl air of a novelist. An added plus for Augusta readers, with our huge military medicine community, are the chapters recounting Cole’s stints in Afghanistan (although he did not extensively practice trauma medicine there). Although I wouldn’t have thought it possible, this book has increased my already boundless respect for practitioners of emergency medicine.

Trauma, My Life As an Emergency Surgeon, by James Cole, M.D., 336 pages, published in 2011 by St. Martin’s.

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The Patient’s Perspectiveby Marcia Ribble

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briefl y, and then they became infected again with cellulitis. Gross! And to top that off, my three grandchildren are leaving town to move elsewhere. Two of them are moving up to Michigan and one is moving to North Carolina. Of the two events, the one which is affecting me the most is having my grandchildren move away. Since coming down to Georgia, they have been my best buddies and they have provided a lot of joy in my life. I like people my own age, but it is good for us elders to be around young people, too. Mine are all teenagers, ranging in age from 14 to 18, and it has been so much fun to be involved again in prom preparations, award ceremonies, movies, and meals out together with the kids. Church on Easter was more magnifi cent with the kids there to notice all the details I might not have seen. Not only have the kids been a source of joy and fun in my life, I have been there for them at times when they needed an extra grown-up in their lives, too. As a grandma I can listen at times when parents are overwhelmed with work and family obligations, and children who are good kids can fi nd themselves ignored or brushed aside. Because I am not responsible for them I can encourage (or merely allow) brief excursions into behaviors not accepted by their parents. Not the bad things that might hurt them, just the occasional ability to ignore the rules and allow our wild sides expression. Parents will rarely condone such behavior, but a

grandparent can encourage kids to run through puddles in bare feet and get their clothes wet or even dirty. Grandmas can put on silly hats. We can deliberately lose card games. We can act like six year-olds and tell really dumb knock-knock jokes. With our grandchildren we can revert to child-like dreaming and magic beliefs again. We can free our imaginations to believe that strange things are possible. We can have picnics in the snow, shoot off fi reworks, or dance in grassy meadows. While parents are asking teenagers to think in terms of practical jobs, grandparents can encourage children to believe they can become anything, no matter how impractical it might be. We can tell stories about their parents and connect the generations together with links which remind children that their parents were once children too, and they still managed to grow up and become good people, just like our grandchildren will. Marcia Ribble received her PhD in English at Michigan State and retired from the University of Cincinnati. She taught writing at the college level and loves giving voice to people who have been silenced. She is now teaching again at Virginia College in Augusta. She can be reached with comments, suggestions, etc., at marciaribble@hotmail.com.

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man and his wife were having an argument about who should make coffee every

morning. The wife said, “You should do it, because you get up fi rst, and then we don’t have to wait as long to get our coffee.” The husband said, “But you are in charge of cooking around here, so you should do it because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.” Unconvinced, the wife replied, “No, you should do it. Besides, it‘s in the Bible: the man should make the coffee.” “I can’t believe that,” the husband replied. “You’re going to have to show me.” So she got their family Bible, opened to the New Testament, and showed him the top of several pages. “See? ‘He brews.’”

Psychiatrist: What’s your problem?Patient: I think I’m a chicken, doc.Psychiatrist: How long has this been going on?Patient: Since I was an egg.

Doctor: What seems to be the problem, sir?Patient: A book fell on my head.Doctor: You have only your shelf to blame.

Doctor: What brings you to my offi ce today?Patient: I hurt myself doing an impression of a tea bag.Doctor: A tea bag?Patient: Yeah, I strained myself.

Three wealthy men and a beautiful young lady are traveling in the same private compartment on a train. The men begin fl irting with the girl, so she proposes, “If each of you will give me $10, I’ll show you my legs.” The men, charmed by her good looks, all pull tens out of their wallets and give them to her, so she pulled up the hem of her dress just a bit to show her legs above her ankles. “I realize that’s very modest,” she said, “but if each of you gentlemen will give me $100, I’ll pull it up even higher.” Men being what they are, each one gladly gave her a hundred dollar bill, so she demurely pulled the hem of her dress just above her knees. At that moment the train began to slow as its fi nal destination neared. “There’s not much time left,” said one of the men. “Show us more.” After pondering the proposal for a moment she said, “For a thousand dollars apiece, I will show you where I was operated on for appendicitis.” All three quickly and eagerly fork over the additional cash. She stood by the door of the compartment, then pointed out the window to a nearby building the train was passing. “See that hospital? That’s where I had it done.” +

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