One Patient (and One Physician) at a Time

Overcoming Obesity One Patient at a Time.

WHO & WHERE Our practice consists of 2 family physicians and 1 family nurse practitioner. Our behavioral intervention program uses the 5 A’s of Behavior Change model1 and is based on Change Control Diet,2 by Harry H. Suiter, who himself struggled with weight management for decades. In collaboration with Mr. Suiter, we have developed a formal office-based weight loss program with Mr. Suiter’s bo...

Building relationships--one patient at a time.

The patient/physician relationship: one doctor's view.

Supporting human rights, one patient at a time.

I saw my first asylum seeker around 10 years ago in my clinic. He came from a country with an autocratic president against whom he had peacefully protested. The government would not accept dissent from its citizens and they arrested, detained, and tortured him. He was released, but he was told that he would be killed for any future—real or perceived—opposition. He fled to the US for safety, and...

One Loop at a Time

Classic techniques for proving termination require the identification of a measure mapping program states to the elements of a well founded domain and to show that this measure decreases with each iteration of a loop in the program. This is a global termination condition — there is a single measure which must be shown to decrease over all of the loops in the program. In this abstract we look at...