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  • Approaching health care with dignity, concern, and compassion

    Approaching health care with dignity, concern, and compassion

    How the Central Florida Physician’s Alliance Serves Patients Spending more time in the waiting room than with the doctor… not having questions fully answered… finding no help with medical insurance… these are just a few of the patient complaints that plague healthcare, and many of us have likely experienced similarly frustrating interactions at the doctor’s…

  • Bringing hunger awareness to the table

    Bringing hunger awareness to the table

    The staggering facts on food insecurity among our fellow neighbors September and Hunger Awareness Month is especially important in Polk County, where food scarcity plagues nearly 17.9 percent of the population.

  • Davenport teacher named NFL Play 60 champion

    Davenport teacher named NFL Play 60 champion

    Changing the way kids think about physical education and their health Susan Searls, a physical education teacher at Davenport School of the Arts (DSA), was recently named an NFL PLAY 60 FITNESSGRAM project champion along with 24 other teachers and faculty members from schools around the United States.

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  • Healthy Cook: The truth about ‘negative calorie’ foods

    Healthy Cook: The truth about ‘negative calorie’ foods

    Some things just sound too good to be true. You lose more calories eating a food than the food has in it. That’s called “negative calories” and it sounds like digestive snake oil to me. It would be died-and-gone-to-heaven for dieters. But there is a modicum of truth in it. Some cold foods that are…

  • Ask a Nurse: Popping pain pills?

    Ask a Nurse: Popping pain pills?

    Americans make up ~4.6 percent of the world’s population, yet have been consuming 80 percent of the global opioid supply and 99 percent of the global hydrocodone supply1! According to the CDC in 2008, 14,800 died of an opioid overdose… more than heroin and cocaine COMBINED2. Opioids like morphine, codeine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone, oxymorphone, and fentanyl…

  • PCMA Letter: Don’t let an active lifestyle be a chore this summer

    PCMA Letter: Don’t let an active lifestyle be a chore this summer

    It’s fairly common amongst the general population to want to live a long, healthy, and happy life.  Remaining physically fit is imperative to this way of life.  Staying in shape helps you live longer and prevents illnesses.  This is why the doctors of the Polk County Medical Association (PCMA) bring you the fitness edition this…

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