The Diet Diary

As some of you know, my 78 year old father lives in Florida. Recently, Dad had need of hospital vip medical services; his neighbor found him hemorrhaging from his bowel. Luckily, an ambulance got to Dad to the emergency room in time, and he’s fine now.

But this was not the first episode of bleeding: Five years ago Dad had a similar incident where he nearly died because of blood loss due to ulcers.

Needless to say, Dad’s health issues worry his children. We’ve been looking into programs that could provide him high quality personalized healthcare.

This morning, I found one that interested us all. It’s called MDVIP. Doctors in this program take on limited patient loads so they can focus on individual patients. They also spend time emphasizing preventive medicine — which would be wonderful in my father’s case. If only some doctor could get Dad to stop taking aspirin, we think these dramatic episodes of bleeding would stop!

After reading about MDVIP’s focus on preventative medicine, I read a bit more about their physicians. They appear to have a large number of award winning physicians — many specifically in Florida. I used the sites online search tool to find one near my father; unfortunately, none of their doctors have offices in Sarasota. So, this specific program won’t work for Dad.

However, now that I’ve discovered it, I’ll try to find similar programs with physicians who take limited patient loads. And if you have a father who won’t take care of his own health, you should look into this too!

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