Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! Wow, you are a bit early today! I haven’t even finished brushing my teeth yet. Please hold for, just, a, second. There…ahhh.. How are you this week? Hopefully as good as we are. I LOVE the Walk! I’ll get right to it, we’ve recently had some guests growing […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good Morning Goal-Setter! Where are my manners, I should’ve asked. Are you a goal-setter? I love goals but I don’t like talking about myself, so let’s talk about Kristin. She loves it when I talk about her in the newsletter. When my wife prepares for a marathon, she sets many […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! I have to share a HIPAA-filtered patient visit I experienced on Wednesday. It was actually yesterday; I’m not permitted to give the real date. This meeting started off rather oddly, yet once completed, was full of new(er) health information. The morning was sunny, and I celebrated its arrival with […]

Atrial Fibrillation Good morning! Today we’ll talk about atrial fib and you don’t need to take notes. I’ll send you mine. What is it? Atrial fib (aka A Fib) is one of the most common rhythm problems. It is irregular activity that usually comes from the roots of the pulmonary veins. My heart skips beats a lot. […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! You are probably aware that here at Walk HQ we love to team with you to get your WWAD Chapter up and going. We don’t practice medicine, well not all of us do. In my day job as a cardiologist, we’d recently run a couple of Mock Codes […]

You were challenged and you answered the call (thank you Reva Foy for capturing these priceless moments). You walked with family, friends, neighbors and strangers. You walked in neighborhoods, parks, mountain ranges, beaches and everything in between. You found your edge and you pushed beyond it. You fell at 0.5 miles and picked yourself up to walk 5 more. You walked […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! Well, it’s a secret no longer. What follows is a nearly 25-month investigation launched in early March 2017. While at times we’ve been overshadowed by another federal report, we’ve been consumed performing our own probe here at Walk with a Doc. Today, April 26th, 2019, we present to […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! Hope that you are enjoying gorgeous weather in your neck of the woods. Today, we reach deep into our mailbag for 2 special letters. We received some just fantastic communication from our heroes Dr. Eric (Smiltneek) in Oshkosh, WI and Dr. Arlene Joy Vallejo in the Philippines. Dr. Eric leads Walk and Bike […]

Brain Health is Important Guest article by Bonnie Burman, Ohio Council for Cognitive Health Hello, I’m Bonnie Burman, President of the Ohio Council for Cognitive Health. I am thrilled that our Council is partnering with Walk with a Doc to bring all of you important information about brain health and dementia. There is a lot we can do […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! So, we hit 500. On the flight home from SFO, my thoughts centered around how I would ideally choose to celebrate WWAD reaching this milestone. Before I share, you know I’m weird, right? I’d celebrate by you and I going for a two-hour-long hike. We’d then grab a bite at […]