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Call or Chat: It's Your Choice
If you prefer making a quick call rather than purchasing a month’s subscription (which, by the way, costs the same and in one month gives you more immediate, live contacts, mor
Straight, No Chaser: Diet and Nutrition Tips
If you’re serious about keeping your New Year’s resolutions, so are we. Today, we move from explaining how to eat (as we did here), to giving you practical steps and choices
Peace on the Job – Guaranteed!
Have you sensed grumpiness related to healthcare around your workplace? The bosses grumbling about healthcare costs? Understand why they feel that way? Well, here’s a great chanc
Straight, No Chaser: Here's Steps for You to Take – Get Active!
Here’s how you get started with a work out regimen. Joining me in this conversation is another SMA expert consultant, Fitness Guru and owner of Loving The New Me Fitness, Shina M
Private Chat
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Straight, No Chaser: Pass The Stress Test
Let’s agree not to go into the New Year filled with last year’s tension or without a plan to avoid new stress. In fact, let’s take this time to lay the groundwork for one now
Call Me
I have dear friends and family who rely on me as a medical expert when scary (Berry) concerns arise. Well, I’ve disconnected my personal number (not really). However, I am gi
Straight, No Chaser: Smoking Cessation RESOLVED
Ok. On our New Year’s resolutions list, we’ve covered diet and exercise. Now what? Of course. Several of you have promised me that you would stop smoking for the new ye
For the New Year, Lose the Co-Pay! Resolve to Talk.
Have you ever made a resolution to be more proactive about your health? Do you ignore your health until some level of emergency demands your attention? Let the SterlingMedic
Straight, No Chaser: Do You Even Know How to Eat Healthy?
We’re still in New Year’s resolutions mode! Yesterday we introduced you to why you exercise, and later we’ll teach you how. Today’s post is about your diet.
844-SMA-TALK
Chat with your doc recently? Probably not. I can tell you from experience that s/he isn’t ignoring you. Just swamped and bracing for an avalanche of newly insured patients per th
Straight, No Chaser: The Benefits of Exercise and Other Physical Activity
At Straight, No Chaser, we understand it’s the most optimistic time of the year. You’ve made many New Year’s resolutions, usually related to smoking cessation, eating better,
SMA TALK is now available!
844-SMA-TALK: Available NOW! When was the last time you gave a quick call to your doc? Get through? Have a mental health crisis? Don’t know what to do? SterlingMedicalAdvice
Straight, No Chaser: The Gall(stones) of Some People
Now that we’ve gotten past the twin holidays associated with large meals, it’s a good time to discuss topics related to your New Year’s resolutions of eating less, eating hea
Straight, No Chaser: The Affordable Care Act and The Math of the US Healthcare System
As we begin 2014 with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and states’ implementation of Medicaid expansion (well in most of the country), it bears reviewing why this wa
The Straight, No Chaser Comprehensive Safe Sex Guide
This edition of Straight, No Chaser is a keepsake, whether for your own reference or as a conversation piece/teaching guide for others. I suspect that due to the volume and wealt
Straight, No Chaser: When Good Drugs Do Bad—Drug Interactions
“Be sure to let your doctor know if you grow a third foot.” Ok, well maybe that is about the only side effect you haven’t heard at the end of one of those commerc
Straight, No Chaser: Straight Talk About Vasectomies
A couple’s conversation about having a vasectomy can either be a tense one or it can be a display of trust and cohesion. The decision by a man to have a vasectomy can be a so
Straight, No Chaser: The Treatment of Arthritis
The thing about treating arthritis is you’d better do it. If you’re not lucky enough to have a form that readily responds to treatment or if you didn’t get early treatment, y
Straight, No Chaser: The Inevitable Disease (Assuming You Live Long Enough)
Actually, humans have a few different “inevitable” diseases, but today we’re discussing arthritis, specifically degenerative joint disease (osteoarthritis). For this conve
