A conversation on the future of health care: integrating lifestyle medicine-part one: understanding the concepts.
In response to personal and institutional history and articles published in The Permanente Journal, this article begins a conversation based on the premise that health care will only reach its full potential with the integration of traditional medical care, which relies on the application of pharmacologic and surgical intervention after the development of illness, and lifestyle medicine, the use of optimal nutrition and exercise.
Retired Obstetrician-Gynecologist and past Medical Director at the San Diego Medical Center in CA. heandre@cox.net.
Herbert J
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Sorensen
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D004032:Diet; D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D011315:Preventive Medicine