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Articles by Tracy Gapin
Your physician mindset is keeping you on the hamster wheel
You’ve been trained to obey and execute. To be the operator, the one grinding, reacting, and doing the work others have designed for you. Medical school taught you to follow protocols. Residency taught you to work within systems. Your career has reinforced the pattern of being the highly skilled technician who executes what others decide. Someone else decides how much time you can spend with patients. Someone else determines what treatments will be reimbursed.
Is your medical career a golden cage?
What if the career you spent your life building, the one filled with achievement, purpose, and prestige, is now the cage you cannot escape? That question did not just haunt me; it held me back for years. I was a successful urologist, specialized in advanced prostate cancer detection, robotic surgery, and men’s health. From the outside, I had it all: a thriving practice, financial security, a respected reputation, and a steady stream of patients. I was doing exactly what I trained my whole life for.
D-Mannose for UTI: Is It a Cure?
Getty Images Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, can be painful. Unfortunately, they’re also common. Anyone can get a UTI, but you can be at a higher risk if you are female. Research shows that more than 50% of women will have a UTI in their lifetime, with about one-third of women needing antibiotic treatment for UTIs before they turn 24. UTIs can produce pain and discomfort in the bladder and pelvic region, especially when urinating.
How to Improve Your Sleep and See Greater Success Original
Admit it. It's the first thing to go when you're under the gun: a good night's sleep. You're on deadline. You've got to get this project done. You're in the middle of a launch. There's just too much to do to fit all in your regular hours. So, you burn the midnight oil. When your head finally hits the pillow, it takes you forever to go to sleep, because your brain won't shut down. But hey, it's worth it, right? You'll rest when the emergency is over. As a doctor, I've heard it all. I know the logic.
Urinary Incontinence: Symptoms and Treatment
If you have urinary incontinence, you don’t necessarily have to resign yourself to wearing pads and carrying extra changes of clothing. Whether you’re experiencing leaking because you were pregnant, have prostate issues, do high-impact sports or are getting older, ongoing incontinence isn’t a given. With effective medications, surgical procedures or physical therapy that extends beyond routine Kegels, many people have their urinary incontinence cured or significantly reduced.
3 Wellness Strategies That Will Also Help You Become a High Performer
Leaders always want to find ways to grow their customer base, increase sales and build their business. While the flashy sales and marketing strategies grab attention, too many entrepreneurs miss one of the most essential and underutilized business growth strategies: high performance. You can use all the fancy strategies, software and new technology you want, but you won't build your business if you're not doing the personal growth work to optimize yourself.
3 Practical Anti-Aging Tips For Men
Traditional doctors approach aging as something that is imminent, unavoidable, and uncontrollable. Their goal is to merely treat your age-related symptoms as they pop up, like a medical version of whack-a-mole. But I view aging VERY differently. Science has shown us that there’s a lot we can do to slow and actually reverse the course of your aging process. That’s because healthy aging is NOT about hitting the genetic jackpot.
Here's What Stress Is Doing to Your Health and Testosterone
Home / Featured Content / Here’s What Stress Is Doing to Your Health and Testosterone Stress is ubiquitous — it affects all of us one way or another. Low-level stress that you can easily overcome is usually not bad for you. In fact, it can even be good for you. Stress can motivate you, improve your athletic performance, and help you adapt to your environment. But long-term or excessive stress can have a profoundly negative effect on your health and even reduce your lifespan.
Early Warning Signs of Kidney Problems: What You Need to Know
Key Takeaways The kidneys play vital roles in how the body functions. Not only do kidneys filter waste, but they regulate blood pressure, support bone strength, regulate red blood cell production and keep the body’s fluid and mineral balance in check. As a result, any damage to the kidneys can impact multiple systems throughout the body. Because early symptoms are subtle, many people don’t realize they have kidney problems.
Kidney Disease Prevention: How to Improve Kidney Function
1/16 Kidney disease kills. Your kidneys are vital for removing waste from the body. Healthy kidneys filter your blood throughout the day, and the waste is then passed into your urine and flows out of the body. However, poor kidney function can lead to serious health complications.
Don't question test, find prostate cancer: My Word
The battle that has long brewed over the prostate-specific antigen test bubbled up recently when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services considered penalizing doctors who ordered "nonrecommended" PSA screenings. The controversial prostate-cancer screening has faced especially fierce opposition since May 2012, when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force deemphasized it to a Grade D rating, meaning it believed the risks of the test outweighed its benefits.
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