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Posts Tagged ‘aging’

What Would You Do?

Gopi Astik, MD • April 2nd, 2012

Categories: About Residency, Cases and Rounds

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While combing through my social media outlets recently, I came across an article that struck me. The article entitled “Why Doctors Die Differently” addresses a subject many professionals in the medical field know but don’t really talk about – that physicians die too. The article explains how we, as physicians, understand the limits of medical therapy and [...]

Curses and Blessings of Aging

Gopi Astik, MD • March 2nd, 2012

Categories: About Residency, Cases and Rounds, Clinical Implications of Research

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 It seems that every time I am in clinic, patients bring in supplements they bought to prevent aging. I usually look at the product ingredients, which include vitamins and herbs, and ask myself three questions: 1. Why didn’t I market this? I could put vitamins and herbs together and sell it to the baby boomers [...]