Countdown to Dream Practice – T minus 6 weeks!

It’s a six-week countdown for the opening of my new family medicine practice called Dr Karen MD. It’s been quite the road we’ve travelled so far; relocating from New Mexico, selling our house, finding a place to live in Fort Collins, and setting up a medical practice in Fort Collins, Colorado.  All of our hard work is starting to pay off.  We have a ton of things to do yet, but we are heading towards the final stretch.  Finally, my dream of
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A New State of Reliability & Trust

Initially when searching the internet for health information, I used to ask the question of “How can I find reliable sources of information that I trust?” Now I am continually redefining my concept of reliable, because it does not truly exist in the concrete sense I had previously thought.  The ability to judge whether information is truly reliable depends entirely on your perspective of what reliable truly means.  It also leads me to a deeper question – what is my role as
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Self-Responsibility

As a physician & healer, this concept continually comes to light for me in my practice. The idea of complete self-responsibility is elusive to most of us as it is not something we are taught to embrace, rather it has negative connotations and some form of punishment associated with it. What does self-responsibility mean? Does it mean taking good care of yourself? To many it means looking after one’s own best interests – in regards to health, it’s usually eating
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