Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning. To all of you who’ve showered the office with Pumpkin Spice products, thank you. My heart, and stomach is full. I’m up 7.5 pounds. It’s not funny. I think my legs are starting to swell. There’s a couple things I want to emphasize. I want to write them […]

Snow in August? We thought you could use the cold thoughts. Thanks for walkingevery Saturday, Dr. Caughron – rain or shine or 18 inches of snow! Happy 5th Walkiversary Dr. Sam Caughron in Chalottesville, VA Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning. I feel like you and I are close enough, I’ll say it. This is […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! Rachael, Bryan and I received this fictional letter this Tuesday. It is from a make-believe physician who lives in Louisiana and is pictured here to the right. Dear ‘Walk’ team, My name is Kevin Holland and I’m a family practice doc in Shreveport, LA. The obesity rate I […]

Happy 5th Walkiversary Dr. Afua Agryako in Houston, TX Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning. There are two things I want to talk about today, and they’re both deep. Before we get to that, El Paso and Dayton – we love you. All of us reading or writing this today are here for you. You are our family. […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! Over the years, we at WWAD haven’t spend a lot of time discussing our Research and Development (R&D) division, this morning they’re front and center. We’re stoked as they just presented us with the very first prototype of a combination toilet/treadmill. We immediately began a short trial. In this […]

Walk with a Doc Newsletter Good morning! Great to be with you. Rachael, Bryan and I get to work with health care visionaries that are seeing things differently. Of course, they’re prescribing the necessary medicines and ordering the appropriate lab tests and performing the right procedures. They are doing all the things they were trained […]

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. […]