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Expert Profile: Glen F. Aukerman, M.D.

Expertise:  27 years of private practice, 13 years of Academic Family Medicine, 12 years of Managed Care activities.
I have been President of the American Academy of Family Physicians, served on the Health Reform Task Force at the White House, Have Chaired 2 University Depts of Family Medicine, Have practiced private family medicine for 30 years and University family medicine for 12 years. I am board certified in Family Medicine, Holistic Medicine and managed care. I am consultant for several pharmaceutical companies and Medical Director of two managed care companies. I have 4 children, 3 in medicine, 2 are family physicians, one in sports medicine, one in internal medicine residency and 6 grand children.

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What do you like about this subject?  Integrative Family Medicine deals with all of medicine, health, nutritionals, herbs, supplements and especially wellness.
What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?  I am teaching medical students and residents how to be successful in practice and life, how to do Integrative Medicine(Holistic Medicine)as well as how to effectively work with managed care.
Something controversial or provocative about this subject  As a Medical Director of two managed care companies and an educator with a private practice I experience both sides of managed care conflicts on a daily basis. As a Holistic Integrative physician I experience the anguish of my patients in trying to incorporate complementary and alternative treatments into their traditionally treated and not treated medical and psychosocial problems.
Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:  Family Medicine deals with the quality of life and wellness versus just life saving illnesses. Holistic or Integrative Medicine deals with the mind, body, and spiritual components of health as well as to the best way to integrate complementary and alternative medicine into the field of traditional medicine.

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Recent Answers from Glen F. Aukerman, M.D.
2008-09-28  General Health Can you please tell me if the medical recommendation also includes blue cheese dressing from a restaurant? This depends on why you were told to stay away from unpasturized dairy products and even if...
2008-09-26  spider veins Varicose veins and spider veins are actually due to the hydrostatic pressure on the venous system caused by the swollen inflammed small bowel acting as a ballast against the iliac veins, all this caused...
2008-09-25  chronic back pain, unexplained weightloss It would appear you have a gene for low HDL cholesterol which combined with your celiac gene is creating a fatty liver,gallbladder symptoms and trending to diabetes and or metabolic syndrome. We are...
2008-09-21  ear fullness/chronic discomfort Sounds like chronic allergic serous otitis that will often respond to Astelin nasal spray twice a day on each side and avoiding plant oil laden foods which make one more allergic. see http://efaeducation...
2008-08-06  weight loss Yes is now appears that the lack of magnesium oxide in the water and food supply and gluten toxicity are primal causes for all obesity to occur so ask your doctor if taking 250 mg before each meal and...
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