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All You Need to Know About Keeping a Man ages 35-65 Healthy Mentally and Physically
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Added: 01/22/2004
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All You Need to Know About Keeping a Man ages 35-65 Healthy Mentally and Physically
Your Husband’s Health: Simplify Your Worry List by Kathleen W. Wilson M.D. was published September, 2003. She has focused her medical practice on midlife people, and observes what keeps people healthy and what makes them miserable. She tells men and women the secrets of the mysterious emotional syndromes of males at midlife, the drop dead conditions, and the less serious problems that affect quality of life. She emphasizes what people can do to help themselves to avoid those big, expensive medical problems further down the line.
The book is 200 pages and avoids medical jargon. It is spiced with stories and humor in straight forward, easy-to-read prose. In the section, Regrets and Longings, she speaks of the atypical male depression, and derailment at midlife. In Boot Hill: How to Keep Him from Dropping Dead, she tells the current thinking on atherosclerotic plaque and heart disease, cholesterol, hypertension and common cancers. In the last section, Further Down Your Worry List, she gives a detailed prescription for how to take excess weight off, and discusses andropause, diabetes, and how to get your husband to take better care of himself. One of the stories she tells in the section on cancer is Jazz Funeral for the Chicken Voodoo Man (in New Orleans).
Dr. Wilson attended medical school at the University of Iowa, trained for 5 years at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN., and has been a senior internal medicine doctor at Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans the past ten years. Before that she was a Lt. Col. in the medical corp of the US Air Force. She is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Dr. Wilson has a large full-time practice with thousands of patients. She describes her position as a medical doctor for 28 years as “a front seat in the drama of life.”
Dr. Wilson says, “If he has a low HDL, you have a problem.” Then she describes how cholesterol is broken down into the “good kind and bad kind.” She says, “It doesn’t matter what the cholesterol is; what matters is whether he has a heart attack or stroke.” She says, “If your husband is angry and irritable, he may be depressed and not know this.” Most baby boomers men will see themselves in these pages, and their wives and loved ones will find the understanding they need to love and care for them and prevent an early demise.
Dispatches From The Frontlines of Medicine: Your Husband’s Health: Simplify Your Worry List
By Kathleen W. Wilson, M.D. Release Date: October 2003, 214 pages; $14.95; Whiskey Hollow Press.
ISBN # 0-9742976-1-5. Distribution: Greenleaf and Ingram.
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