Monday, December 12, 2016

Mayo Clinic Diet: What To Know | US News Best Diets

Mayo Clinic Diet: What To Know | US News Best Diets

How does Mayo Clinic Diet work?
DOS & DON'TS

Do: Raid the produce section of your supermarket.

With the "Mayo Clinic Diet" book as your guide, you’ll work your way through two parts: “Lose it!” and “Live it!” Part 1 focuses on 15 key habits – ones to add and ones to ditch. You don’t count calories, and you can snack all you want on fruits and veggies. After two weeks, you begin part 2, learning how many calories you should eat to either lose or maintain weight and where those calories should come from. No food group is completely off-limits –


Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Senate committee calls for ban on surgeons doing simultaneous operations - The Boston Globe

Senate committee calls for ban on surgeons doing simultaneous operations - The Boston Globe: A powerful Senate committee wants all hospitals to explicitly ban surgeons from overseeing two simultaneous operations, weighing in on a controversy that has roiled Massachusetts General Hospital and spurred a national debate on patient safety.

The new Finance Committee report, scheduled to be released Tuesday, follows a Spotlight Team series in 2015 on the issue. The committee will urge hospitals to clearly prohibit “concurrent surgeries,’’ which it defined as two operations, managed by the same surgeon, whose critical parts occur at the same time.