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This month on
Healing Times Radio
Dr Miller Recommends
Dr. Ken Pelletier
New Medicine
Clearly, the latest trend in the medical community is "integrative
medicine." By combining the lifesaving drugs and high-tech procedures
of medical science with alternative therapies that stimulate the body's
healing processes, integrative medicine delivers higher standards of
treatment than orthodox or complementary medicine can separately
provide. New Medicine (DK Publishing; March
2007; $35.00; 512 pages), written by a distinguished team of leading
health experts from both sides of the Atlantic presents the best
integrative treatments for over 100 ailments, from headaches and acne
to cancer and heart disease.
Dr. Len Saputo
A Return to Healing
For
several decades, a rapidly emerging new medical paradigm has supported
a renaissance in our understanding of lifelong wellness. In this timely
book, Dr. Saputo presents the inspiring story of this new medicine, and
reveals how it can unlock the door to a health care system that works
for all Americans.
Corporatized medicine only gets to work once disease occurs.
Integrative medicine, on the other hand, prioritizes prevention and
non-invasive treatments as the first line of defense, and blends the
best-evidenced solutions from both mainstream and alternative healing
modalities.
Conventional medicine's obsession with profitably treating symptoms
drives up the cost of health care. And with nearly half of us lacking
access to adequate health insurance, how do we deliver care to every
American? Saputo and cowriter Byron Belitsos argue that single-payer
national health insurance is a necessary but insufficient solution. A
genuine return to healing requires that we combine regulatory reform
with support for a transformed medical paradigm.
Dr. Saputo's novel prescription for change draws from his front-line
work as a cofounder of the Health Medicine movement and originator of
one of America's first integrative medical clinics. Studded with
essential wisdom for healthy living and with compelling stories drawn
from his forty years of practice, A Return to Healing is rich
with the latest research in both biomedical science and health care
policy-and is a superb guide to the future of medicine.
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Dear ,
I'm very excited to announce that we're kicking off January with a bang
and a special announcement. Due to the very positive response, we will
do two different shows each month! And each will be aired twice, so you
can be sure to fit them into your schedule.
January will
continue with an inspirational lineup of guests, first will be, Dr. Len
Saputo, MD, co-author of A Return to Healing - Radical Health Care
Reform and the Future of Medicine on January 7th.
Then, on January 21st,
join me as I talk with Ken Pelletier, Professor at University of California
Medical School, health care consultant to major corporations, and celebrated
author of many books, including the seminal "Mind As Healer, Mind as Slayer."
Dr. Pelletier and I have been friends and colleagues since the 1970s, and I
have always found what he has to say fascinating, new, and very practical.
Check out their bios below. You won't want to miss these hot
shows!
Warmly,
Emmett Miller MD
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 This month's Guest on
Healing Times Radio
Jan 7, 2010 (11am PST):
Len Saputo MD
Dr. Saputo, a 1965 graduate of Duke University Medical School, is
board certified in internal medicine and was in private practice in affiliation
with John Muir Medical Center in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30
years. After his awakening to the deep flaws in conventional medicine which
culminated in the early 1990s, Saputo began a quest to develop a new approach
to healing now known as integral-health
medicine-the emergent medical care model that is integrative, holistic,
person-centered, and preventive.
In order to further this mission, Dr. Saputo founded the
Health Medicine Forum in 1994 and was its director until 2008. The Forum
(healthmedicineforum.org) is a nonprofit educational foundation that has
sponsored hundreds of public and professional events in the San Francisco Bay
Area-including monthly presentations, workshops, and conferences-focused on
integrative medicine, the nature of healing, and the politics of health care.
In 2001, Saputo cofounded what is now called the Health
Medicine Center, in Walnut Creek,
California-one of the first clinics to bring the new model of integral-health
medicine into practice. In the course of disseminating his unique vision for
the new medicine, Saputo has given more than 100 presentations to hospitals,
medical schools, universities, and community organizations.
Dr. Saputo is the coauthor of Boosting Immunity: Creating
Wellness Naturally (New World Library, 2002); has edited six books,
including Beating the Years and Boosting Your Digestive Health; and has
authored book chapters on numerous medical and health subjects. He has
contributed dozens of articles on a wide range of topics in both mainstream and
complementary and alternative medicine to such journals as California Pharmacist, Alternative
Medicine, and Townsend Letter. He
is also actively engaged in clinical research related to the use of
near-infrared light therapy in pain management.
Active in public and professional education over the past
decade, Dr. Saputo produces and hosts the Prescriptions
for Health show on KEST-AM, aired in the San Francisco Bay Area every
weekday morning, with his wife, Vicki, who is a registered nurse. Saputo has
been a strong advocate of fitness and athletics all of his life. In 1996 and
again in 2001, he won the International Tennis Federation's Senior World
Individual Championship in his age group and was ranked number one in the world
in 1996 (in the 55-year-old division) by the ITF. With never-ending support
from his wife, Saputo is committed to his life's purpose of changing the health
care system in America from a disease care model to a genuine health care model
based on the principles of the new medicine, as well as broad-ranging reform of
the manner in which care is financed and delivered.
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 This month's Guest on
Healing Times Radio
Jan 21, 2010 (11am PST):
Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier
Dr. Pelletier is a Clinical
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, at the University of Arizona
School of Medicine; and, a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of
Family and Community Medicine and in the Department of Psychiatry at the University
of California School of Medicine, San Francisco (UCSF). At the University of
Arizona, he is Director of the Corporate Health Improvement Program (CHIP)
which is a collaborative research program between CHIP and 15 of the Fortune
500 corporations. Also, he is Chairman of the American Health Association
and is a Vice President with Healthtrac Incorporated.
Prior to
these positions, Dr. Pelletier served as Clinical Professor of Medicine,
Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; was Director of
the Stanford Corporate Health Program (SCHP); and, Director of the NIH funded
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program at Stanford (CAMPS). From 1974
until joining the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1990, Dr. Pelletier
held a dual appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of
Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of
Medicine in San Francisco (UCSF).
In addition
to his faculty positions, Dr Pelletier has served as a member of the Board of
Directors of the California Wellness Foundation, Foundation Health Systems
(FHS), Health Systems International (HSI), and the Social Venture Network. He
was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich,
Switzerland and has published over 300 professional journal articles in
behavioral medicine, disease management, worksite interventions, and
alternative/integrative medicine.
At the
present time, Dr. Pelletier is a medical and business consultant to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization (WHO),
the National Business Group on Health, the Federation of State Medical Boards,
and major corporations including IBM, American Airlines, Medtronic, Disney,
Merck, Ford, NASA, Microsoft ENCARTA, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, United
Healthcare, the Pasteur Institute of Lille, France, the Alpha Group of Mexico,
and the Singapore Ministry of Health. He also serves on the boards of the Healthtrac
Foundation, United Behavioral Health, American Institute of Stress,
International Spa Association (ISPA),American Journal of Health
Promotion, and as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA), the Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine (JOEM), and Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dr.
Pelletier is listed in Who's Who in America and in Who's
Who in the World. His research, clinical practice, and
publications have been the subject of numerous national television programs including
several appearances on the ABC World News, the Today program, Good
Morning America, the CBS Evening News, 48 Hours, the McNeil-Lehrer
Newshour, CNN, FOX News, CBS Sunday Morning,Hour Magazine, the Time/Life
video series, the award winning BBC series The Long Search, and the
five-part Blue Cross/Blue Shield sponsored PBS series Healthy People,
Healthy Business.
Dr. Pelletier is the author of ten (10) major books
including the international best seller Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer
(New York: Delacorte and Delta, 1977; Revised in 1992); Holistic
Medicine: From Stress to Optimum Health (New York: Delacorte and Delta,
1981; Revised in 1991); Healthy People in Unhealthy Places; Stress and
Fitness at Work (New York: Delacorte, Delta, and Doubleday, 1984); Sound
Mind - Sound Body: A New Model for Lifelong Health (New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1995); The Best Alternative Medicine: What Works?
What Does Not? (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000); and Stress
Free for Good: Ten Scientifically Proven Life Skills for Health and Happiness
(New York: Harper Collins, 2005).
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About Healing Times Radio Show
Emmett Miller, MD is a physician, author, poet, musician, and master
storyteller, whose multicultural heritage has given him a unique
social, medical, and spiritual perspective. One of the pioneers of
Mind/Body Medicine, HEALING TIMES with Dr. Emmett Miller explores
Mind/Body Health and how to reclaim our inherent personal wisdom
integrating scientific knowledge and techniques of modern medicine.
Author of Deep Healing and Our Culture on the Couch, Seven Steps to
Global Healing, Dr. Miller's mission is to help us heal ourselves so
that we can in turn, heal our planet.
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