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As we do each year, Cityview honors the outstanding men and women in our medical community whose dedication and skill have earned the respect of both their patients and their fellow doctors. Every year, we ask the area’s referring…
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It seems like everybody has a Dolly story. While visiting with a friend the other evening, the conversation turned to one of the few topics you can start a conversation about with ease anywhere in East Tennessee: Dolly Parton. It turns out…
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An eight-year study of death rate data by researchers at Johns Hopkins recently concluded that medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the U. S. That’s right, mistakes by doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other health care…
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Coming from a Lake Wobegon culture of Wisconsin farm families, where bailing hay, cutting timber, and loading trucks was the norm, the idea of “working out” was a foreign concept. The saying, “if you have to ‘work out,’ you aren’t working…
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Clata Winningham Finn is 86 years old, and she says her only complaint is that rheumatoid arthritis causes her to move slowly. But she is charming and stalwart and deft with her cane. “In my mind, I think I can do anything I used to do.”…
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While conventional medicine is often a life-saver, certain alternative medicines may be able to help prevent major health issues requiring medication or surgery, and thus improve your overall quality of life. However, with so many options…
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The uncertainty of what lies ahead after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis can be troubling. The disease currently affects around 5 million people in the United States, and that number is expected to grow to around 13 million by 2050, at which…
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With Obamacare on its deathbed, even those who want it gone aren’t keen on killing it so fast. One of the law’s most outspoken critics, Lamar Alexander, has said “Obamacare should be repealed finally only when there are concrete,…
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Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect, membership in an alternative type of health care coverage, known as Health Care Sharing Ministries (HCSMs), has more than doubled. HCSMs allow those of similar religious beliefs to join…
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In the New Testament, John 5:1-9 relates a story of a man who had been an invalid of 38 years and had hoped to get his turn at the Bethesda healing pool. The people believed that an Angel of the Lord periodically caused the water to stir…
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