HOW'S YOUR HEALTH?-A REPORT TO PRINT OUT BEFORE YOU SEE DR. NESKOVIC
HOW'S YOUR HEALTH? How's Your Health? See a copy of the "How's Your Health" form used by Dr. Neskovic, and try filling it out for yourself at WWW.HOWSYOURHEALTH.ORG PLEASE FILL THIS OUT NOW, PRINT THE REPORT AND BRING IT WITH YOU TO DISCUSS IT WITH DR. NESKOVIC DURING NEXT VISIT. THANK YOU
PROPER LIVING AND HEALTHY LIFESTLE
S. Mike Neskovic, MD 633 N Central Ave #209 Glendale, CA, 91203 Phone: 818-244 4114 Fax: 818-244 9337 Board Certified in Family Medicine and Geriatrics Active Staff Member at GMHHC and GAHHC Wellness Program Medical Director at Glendale Memorial Hospital Voted Two Times Number one Family Doctor in Glendale PROPER LIVING AND HEALTHY LIFESTLE I am now a family doctor for over 30 years, and I am glad to tell you, family medicine is still my lifelong passion and joy. Actually from age three, I was thinking about health and about helping patients. So in a way, my brain is thinking about health and wellness and helping people for more than 50 years. But in a way, it was easier for me to be a physician first 5 or 10 years, because I recognize now I was like kind of hypnotized doctor and like a robot. What do I mean by that? Well, it is very easy to stay with and quote medical textbooks and to hide behind our professors and just to prescribe medications, which are recognized by majority of doctors and backed by double-blind medical studies. The longer I am practicing medicine the more I am thinking am I helping my patients more and more or maybe less and less. I recognized that we should not put burden only on modern medications and modern technologies to help our patients, but we should go back to the root of the problems and put burden on patients themselves. Indeed, I see more and more patients, who have very poor living habits. Those patients have multiple addictions, and they have problems with taking too many drugs, legal and illegal. We see more and more patients who are sedentary and who are not doing any exercise and patients who put 100% burden on us physicians and less and less on their own healthy or unhealthy living habits. A thought from Jesus Christ comes to mind, and he said “We can resolve all life problems just by two simple things- First by prayer and second by fasting”. And why are we not fasting and praying? What Jesus is trying to tell us that food that we eat is very essential and positive mental attitude toward food we eat and toward our whole life and toward doing right things for the right reason is of utmost importance. We should eat to live, and not only live to eat, says Hippocrates, father of modern medicines. He also tells us: “Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food”. Hippocrates is trying to tell us that food we eat is essential for our health, well being and overall healthy or unhealthy aging. This article is about proper living and healthy lifestyle! What do I mean by that? Well, proper living is listening to our heart and going back to the basics. Remember that old saying: “Early to bed and early to rise and leave to be healthy, wealthy and wise”. People are creatures of habits and yes, if we wake up early, if we have good night sleep our day will be unfolding as it should. That is why I am proposing that we live properly. For example, when should we eat? This is so simple question, but many people would miss the answer. The answer is that we should eat when we are hungry. Probably three meals and two snacks are too much for us. Also our portion control is very important. So, our whole attitude to our lives and living is essential. Remember what good book tells us that our bodies are temples of Holy Spirit! If we accept that as a 100% true, which I as a Christian doctor do accept, our bodies should be beautiful and healthy and would serve the purpose that we serve other people. If we are healthy and if we serve other people, we would be fewer burdens to other people. Also there is a great mystery that when we do something for other human beings, who cannot give us anything in return, this is in a way God’s blessing to us. Did you know that in those moments when we are securing future of some other people our own future is being secured? In conclusion, this article is telling about my dream that all of us live properly and practice healthy life style. As a physician everyday I am telling this same thing to my patients, but I am rarely getting proper response from them. Many of my patients are just simply not following me. Why is it happening? It means that many of my patients are like hypnotized and they are so deeply involved in their own wrong ways of life that they in a way do not believe me that there is any other different way to live. The old saying says that life not examined is life not worth living. I tell that to my patients all the time, and tell them to keep a diary about their lives for at least a week and to report back to me. What do you think how many of my patients come back with a diary? Well, may be one or two out of 100, and this is indeed very disappointing. That is why I decided to write this article and to tell in details what I always wanted to tell all of my patients. We should start doing right things for the right reason, we should start respecting our bodies as a holly temple and our health will start improving and our bodies will become healthier and more beautiful. We are dealing today with epidemics of heart disease, diabetes, chronic lung diseases and many other chronic diseases, which indeed are 80% curable if patients are willing to change bad habits and practice healthy lifestyle. Maybe you didn’t know, but with chronic diseases health care professionals can help only about 20%, and about 80% burden is on the patients themselves to get well. We have in Glendale Memorial Hospital Stanford Chronic Disease Management Program, which is an excellent program to help any patient with chronic disease. This program has trained patients who become educators and they are educated to teach other patient about diseases that they themselves have and that they are very good and skilled in controlling by themselves. The fact that doctor can help usually only about 20% with any chronic incurable disease and that they can help themselves 80% is in a way a healing and liberating statement. Because when patients really know the truth, it will set them free and they will get convinced that their old way of life, full of errors and unhealthy habits is not worth living. So in a way, I am not trying to convince my patients to do what is right or wrong, but I would like them to come to conclusion to get convinced themselves and to start doing what is right. To write this article, I was encouraged by many of my patients and many of my colleague doctors, who were guests on my TV program “Health Line with Dr. Neskovic”. My colleagues and patients are seeing that I am coming from a very special healing place that my whole life is indeed a good example of living healthy, doing healthy exercises, eating healthy, dealing with human emotions in a healthy way and having a great healthy attitude. Yes, if we want to succeed and live healthy life, we need to have a great healthy attitude. I learned many secrets of life from my patients and I collected many great original thoughts from my patients, which I would like to share with you one day. Also being a physician on active medical staff for more than 19 years in Glendale Memorial Hospital, I learned many very useful healing techniques and great advice from my senior colleagues, which I call my mentors and I would like to share that with you. My motive for writing this article is pure one, and the desire of my heart remains to help as many patients as possible. If this article helps at least one patient who suffers from incurable but treatable diseases like severe obesity, diabetes, chronic lung disease or patients with severe incurable headaches, I would be the happiest doctor of all. So please, stop right now and reevaluate your life, make decision to get rid of your bad habits, and your unhealthy life, and start doing exercise five times a week, and you will start growing younger and healthier. With Respect, S. Mike Neskovic, MD.
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