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obesity and AFIB

Posted on 2019-04-122019-05-10 by Sameer Oza

Atrial fibrillation has a strong correlation with obesity. A study from Australia showed that if obese patients lost 10% of their weight, they had better outcomes. Another study shows the same. REVERSE-AF was a large, well publicised study with similar results. It seems that a lot of these studies come from Australia, where patients have…

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dog walking in boulder

Posted on 2019-04-082019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

Boulder, Colorado is a great place to walk. In the 1960s, several forward thinking people established a greenbelt around Boulder – also called Open Space. Boulder is a great place to walk your dog off leash if you are a Boulder resident and have a “voice and sight” tag for your dog. Here are some…

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street photography in france 2018

Posted on 2019-04-082019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

France is a great place to photograph people. 2 reasons – first the people are very colorful and often fashionable, the second and more important reason – I don’t speak French. I would just gesture and ask them if I could “make a portrait” (as Eric Kim says) of them. If they cussed me out,…

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patient satisfaction = patient death!

Posted on 2019-04-072019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

I have been mulling over this thought for some time. For the longest time I have operated under the dictum that healthcare is similar to any other customer service industry. However I think that the pendulum has swung too far where customer service is eclipsing outcomes in the healthcare sector. One could argue that the…

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not a good week for alcohol enthusiasts!!

Posted on 2019-04-052019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

This has not been a good week for “moderate” alcohol drinkers. There has been a barrage of articles which make me re-think what “moderate” alcohol intake is. Just 2 days ago I wrote this blog. Look at this BBC article. This was a half a million patient prospective Chinese study that indicated that if a…

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alcohol = cigarettes??

Posted on 2019-04-042019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

How many cigarettes are there in a bottle of alcohol? A recent study showed that drinking equivalent of 1 bottle of wine per week (4 drinks) increased risk of cancer in women and in men. The overall absolute increase in cancer risk for one bottle of wine per week equals that of five (men) or…

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walking by the minutes

Posted on 2019-04-042019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

I am passionate about walking. If walking can help gain India’s independence, it surely can help you achieve freedom from a lot of diseases Walking might be the best exercise there is – low to no risk of injury (unless you are walking on the Boulder Creek Path 🙂 ), can be done with any…

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spring break books

Posted on 2019-04-012019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

Read some thought provoking books this weekend. In these five breaths – Paul R Lipton This is a semi autobiographical piece from Paul Lipton, a retired attorney from Boulder. The protagonist ends up in a hospital, dying, with 5 breaths remaining. During each breath he relives periods of his life. As Soren Kierkegarrd says “Life…

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photography books

Posted on 2019-03-292019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

Looked through some interesting photo books this weekend. 3 of my favorites are: Koudelka Koudelka – Gypsies Looking In – Robert Frank’s The Americans Some quotes from Robert Frank: What you reject ….. is just as important. When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want…

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media coverage

Posted on 2019-03-282019-04-26 by Sameer Oza

http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_32289898/cu-boulder-golfer-grateful-routine-physical-revealed-heart http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_32101145/boulder-community-hospital-first-county-implant-worlds-smallest https://www.9news.com/amp/article?section=news&subsection=health&headline=heart-electricians-have-new-3-d-heart-map&contentId=73-344566583 Mike Lenick https://www.bch.org/Latest-News/2019/April/Lecture-Audience-Sees-Life-Saving-Skills-in-Acti.aspx https://www.bch.org/Find-a-Physician/O/Sameer-A-Oza-M-D-.aspx https://www.plantbaseddoctors.org/sameer-oza

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