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You probably first saw Dr. Simpson on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Dr. Terry Simpson received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, where he spent several years in the Kovler Viral Oncology laboratories doing genetic engineering. Until he found he liked people more than Petri dishes. After a career in surgery, his focus is to make sense of the madness, and bust myths. Dr. Simpson, an advocate of culinary medicine, believes in teaching people to improve their health through their food and in their kitchen. On the other side of the world, he has been a leading advocate of changing health care to make it more "relationship based," and his efforts awarded his team the Malcolm Baldrige award for healthcare in 2018 and 2011 for the NUKA system of care in Alaska and in 2013 Dr Simpson won the National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award. A frequent contributor to media outlets discussing health related topics and advances in medicine, he is also a proud dad, author, cook, and doctor “in that order.” For media inquiries, please visit www.terrysimpson.com.

Breakfast Without Mom

Breakfast alone can be fun, but when you have it because your wife is in a “memory care” center it brings little joy. My mom is not coming home – she is in a “memory care” center, living out the remainder of her days because a disease has robbed her mind.

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4 Diseases You Should Worry More About Than Ebola

The fear about Ebola virus has led many to question why we would bring back people who are infected with this disease. However, if you fear this will cause an outbreak of Ebola, you should consider these four diseases that are more virulent, and cause more deaths than Ebola.

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Ebola: Five Reasons to Bring Victims to the US

There are five important reasons to bring home Americans who’ve been infected with Ebola. In order to prevent and treat affected people, we need to learn more about Ebola and how to prevent, treat, and control this deadly disease.

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CDC Warns America to Not Travel To West Africa

CDC warns Americans not to travel to Western Africa where the worst outbreak of Ebola in history has claimed the lives of 70% of its victims. Two Americans are being flown to the US to be treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

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Ebola Patients Coming Home

CNN reports two American’s coming home – both infected with the virus. To be at Emory Hospital in Atlanta. Some experimental serum given to one of them

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Ebola Virus: Deadly and Spreading

Update about Ebola virus. Ebola virus is one of the most deadly virus known to man and the current outbreak began in February in Guinea in western Africa. When the Peace Corps members come home, how do we handle them?

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Changing Football Practice Patterns: Stop Killing Players

The NFL has slowly come around to realizing implications of concussions on long-term health. What they have not done is realize the impact of impact. It is time the NFL stop training with “full pads” implying “hits.” It is time to have a more intelligent practice

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Care of Aging Parents

Often people who want to stay in their homes as they age need more help than their spouse or partner can give them. It isn’t intense medical help. Often it is someone that is willing to prepare meals, shop, light cleaning, and mostly some conversation.

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Caring for Aging Parents: The Son Who Is A Doctor

What happens when a surgeon’s elderly parents begin to have health issues? Caring for aging parents is difficult because they are used to doing things their way- but sometimes you have to change from being their child, to being their parent.

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