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10 Lessons I Learned From Dad
Happy Birthday Dad This week I’m visiting my Dad in Oakland, ME to help celebrate his 82nd birthday, and I never stop learning from him. Dad is just a good man. Actually I am blessed with having...
View ArticleWhy I Stopped Using Antibiotics When I Get Bronchitis
For as long as I can remember I have tended to develop a bad cough nearly every time I get sick in the cold and flu season. I’m not sure if I have a minor tendency to bronchospasm or if my years of...
View ArticleHow This Family Doctor Avoids Getting Sick While Examining Sick Patients All Day
My wife used to call the time from fall through spring the no-kissing season. I always get my flu shot, and rarely get influenza, but as a family physician I need to look into the nose and mouths of...
View ArticleDon’t Just Wear Red: Do Something
Tomorrow, Friday Feb. 1, is national Wear Red Day, to spread awareness that heart disease is the number one killer of women in the U.S. Breast cancer gets a lot of press, sells a lot of pink football...
View ArticleCrowd source help Requested: Turmeric -Curcumin for Ovarian Cancer
This post is an attempt to crowd source for information on turmeric with curcumin in ovarian cancer. Kay, my wife, has ovarian cancer that despite the best efforts of Kay and her various oncologists...
View ArticleFirst-Hand Anecdotal Evidence
Today my wife and I started down the path of hoping against hope that the anecdotal evidence for the use of curcumin for ovarian cancer allows her to become one more first- hand anecdote. As a...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie and Celebrity Health Advocacy
This week’s celebrity health health advocacy headlines have been dominated by the sensational NY Times article by Angelina Jolie going public after her prophylactic double mastectomy and her BRCA1 gene...
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Memorial Day Memories
Memorial Day brings back fond memories of celebrating military service in my family as a child. My Dad is one of three brothers; all of whom served in different branches of the U.S. military. The...
View ArticleSupreme Court Ruling on Gene Patents: It is Personal
For many women and many families the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that naturally occurring genes in the human genome cannot be patented is highly personal. I’ve been waiting to decide on whether...
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Still Taking Turmeric Extract Curcumin C3 Complex
I posted a little over 3 months ago in a post called First Hand Anecdotal Evidence about the hopeful improvement in the level of CA-125, the tumor marker for my wife Kay’s ovarian cancer tumor marker,...
View ArticleDoctors Own Feelings, Empathy, and Objectivity
I read a fine article in the NY Times Opinionator column titled “Medicine’s Search for Meaning.” The primary focus of the article is the way the education process of physicians routinely encourages,...
View ArticleIndividual Health Insurance Premiums In WA Increase 50% in 2014! Here’s Why?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) effective 2014 will make insurers unable to exclude Americans with serious health problems from enrolling in insurance plans. This is among the most popular aspects of...
View ArticleCancer Care: Redefining the Best We Can Do
Sometimes it seems like in cancer care the lag between bench science breakthroughs and clinical care is painfully long. In addition information on the latest therapeutic modalities is fragmented and...
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Rib Fractures Up Close and Personal
Friday was sunny, Mt Rainier was out (of the rain and clouds) and was calling to Kay and me last Friday. We were the first car up the road to Paradise right behind the ambulance. Maybe this was a bad...
View ArticleShould Deer Populations be Reduced to Control Lyme Disease?
Lyme disease has reached epidemic proportions in America, especially in the East. An estimated >30,000 cases of Lyme disease will be diagnosed and reported in the U.Sl this year and many more cases...
View ArticleI’ve Never Really been Mr. Pullen
Sometimes when someone addresses me as Mr. Pullen it seems strange. I am not used to the salutation Mr. being applied to me. I just skipped the Mr. stage of my life. I took the full speed ahead...
View ArticleYou- Yes YOU Can Save a Life by Using an AED
This week Sound Family Medicine purchased a replacement AED (automated external defibrillator) for my clinic. I underwent a training session for use with the new device. It took about 1 minute. Open...
View ArticlePersonal Experience on a High Plant Based-Low Fat Diet
This post is unlike any I’ve put up over the years of DrPullen.com It is largely anecdote and not based on enough hard data that I will convince my physician friends. Intrigued? Read on. My son...
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It takes more than Ankylosing Spondylitis to Keep Guti Down
One of the very few good things about my beloved Seattle Mariners this year, besides Nelson Cruz crushing the ball, has been the call up of Franklin Gutierrez. Guti has been one of my favorite M’s over...
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Why I Eat a Plant Based Diet
In about April 2015 I decided to stop eating animal products. For the previous year or two my son had become a vegan, and I listened to his reasoning for his life-style changes. At first I was turned...
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