ONE DOCTOR’S PERSONAL HEALTH EVOLUTION

WRITER: RICHARD T. BOSSHARDT, MD, FACS

When I was a kid, I took my health for granted. I ate what I wanted. The concept of exercise was moot because I played outside all day when I was not in school. I slept like a log. The most stressful things in life were chores and homework. Looking back, from a vantage point of over six decades it is sobering to think that my father had open heart surgery to bypass four blocked blood vessels by the time he was sixty. I don’t take my health for granted any more.

Here is a brief summary of one doctor’s effort to adapt in order to stay well and fit.