This time of year, I get a lot of questions from my patients about fitness technology like apps and gadgets. In the video above, I talk about this in a local TV news interview. Check out other health related videos at MikeSevilla.TV. Enjoy!
Thanks to Steve from Work2LoseIt.com for being my guest on Family Medicine Rocks Podcast Episode 290. We had a great conversation about how he started on this journey, why he chooses to share his story on the internet, and his thoughts on weight loss surgery.
Steve and I also talked about our favorite fitness gadgets and technology like My Fitness Pal, FitBit, and Lose It. He also wanted me to share with you the links of Digifit and Fatboy Fitman.
You can listen to the show below, or download the show here and listen anytime. I also encourage you to follow me on twitter, like the facebook page, subscribe to the podcast, check out my linked-in page, and my youtube page. Enjoy!
Family Medicine Rocks podcast episode 289 will be live at 2pm Eastern Time on Thursday, January 10th, 2013. The title of the episode is "Gun Violence, Flu Update, and Monetization." This jam-packed show has the following content:
The first show of 2013 was Family Medicine Rocks Episode 288. Thanks to all of you who listened live and who have already downloaded the show. Here are the summary of the topics discussed:
You can listen to the full audio podcast below. You can also download the entire show here and listen at your convenience. I also invite you to follow me on twitter, "like" the facebook page for this site, check out other videos on my youtube page, and check out my linked-in page. Enjoy!
Over this weekend, in the national news, you're seeing stories of what they're calling an Early Flu Season for the 2012-13 year. A quick search gets stories from NBC News, Huffington Post, Fox News, and ABC News. I had the flu 5 years ago, and I wrote about it in the post "Influenza Case Study: Me."
It is not too late to get your flu shot, which experts are saying is a good match to the current flu virus strain that is out there. Check out this list of people who should get the flu vaccine from the CDC. In the video above, you'll see a TV interview I did last month. Back at that time, there was influenza cases in the southern part of the US, but it's now the case that the virus is spreading nationwide. So, if you haven't already, get your flu shot!
Well, they did it again. The press is congratulating Congress on the "success" of coming up with a New Year's Night deal on that no one likes. For physicians, this deal contains a delay in the 27% cut in Medicare payments to physicians according to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). For full coverage of this story, I encourage you to read articles from Medpage Today, Kaiser Health News, and Modern Healthcare. (Photo credit: New York Times)
The 26.5% cut in Medicare reimbursement mandated by the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula was averted in a literal 11th hour vote Tuesday in the House of Representatives. The House vote to pass the "fiscal cliff" bill ok'd earlier by the Senate delays the SGR cuts for a year. The bill cleared the House by a vote of 257-167; senators had passed the same bill in an 89-8 vote just after 2:00 a.m. vote.
While Congress has put another bandaid on the SGR problem, a long term solution is still needed, because when December 31, 2013 comes, we'll be going through this thing all over again, and the potential cuts will probably be in the 30% range. Medical organizations will again be out encouraging their members to lobby congress for a long term Medicare payment solution. How effective will they be? We'll see...
We had a great show on the last Saturday of 2012 with co-host Kat as we talked about the stories that we'll remember from the past year. You can listen to the show below or you can download the mp3 file here and listen anytime to Family Medicine Rocks Episode 287. (Photo credit)
Just wanted to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your support of me and my social media projects over the past year. I am always humbled thinking about people like you taking the time to check out what I'm doing. I'm really hoping to build on last year and make it a great 2013!
If you enjoy what you hear, I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast's iTunes feed and have the show come to you so that you can listen anytime on your mobile device. I also encourage you to follow me on twitter, "like" the facebook page for this site, check out my youtube channel, and see my linked-in page. Enjoy!
Over this holiday weekend, I got to see the movie about Abraham Lincoln. You can check out the trailer above. At the end of the movie, I learned that much of this movie came from the book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." I'll have to take a read of that book again.
Something that I really enjoyed about the movie was the careful political balance Lincoln had to do not only to keep the votes of his supporters for the Thirteenth Amendment, but also to gain the votes of those who were against him. Of course, people will point out the buying of votes. But, what I think made Lincoln great was his power of articulation and precise communication of his point of view.
A lot of people drew analogies between this movie and the recent/current Fiscal Cliff crisis. I admit that I'm a little bit of a political junkie, but lessons from this movie go beyond politics. I learned that I need to be more clear in my communication with peers and with patients. And, the art of storytelling, which the Lincoln character did so well in this move, has been lost in America today. It's a skill that I need to learn. I guess that is what this blog is for - to try to perfect that important skill...
Ever do something totally nuts? Well, this is one of them. In the past few days, I decided to change up the website and try out this new Squarespace 6 platform. The former site (which is still there for now) was on the Squarespace 5 platform.
Many of you out there are more geeky than I am, so this process was pretty stressful, but, hopefully, if you're seeing this, everything worked out. This site is far from being "finished." It will continue to be a work in progress, and I apologize for things like broken links, and stuff like that.
Welcome to the "soft" launch or the "under the radar" launch of the new site. Feel free to look around, try things out on the site - especially the "Share" button on the right lower part of this post and the like/comment buttons on the lower left part of this post - and give me feedback. Thanks!
I guess the Mayans were wrong. There were a lot of other funny pics out there on social media
