Affiliated Community Medical Centers
As a dermatologist my concern for your skin is year-round, but as spring and summer approach it’s important to start thinking about sun and skin safety. Skin Cancer is Attacking our Young! At ACMC, we have three dermatologists and we are all seeing the same trend that is being reported nationally; skin cancer is on [More]
Can you get in better shape without changing your shape? The answer is “yes”. Most often my patient’s true desire when beginning an exercise program is to change their shape. They want to lose weight, drop a few sizes, look better and feel more confident. Sometimes after working on their exercise program for six months [More]
Small Pox, Polio, Whooping Cough, Tuberculosis, and Measles are all diseases that once plagued our ancestors with severe illness, lifelong disability and even death. Do you have a family member that was affected by one of these illnesses long ago? Do you choose to vaccinate yourself and your children from diseases such as these? Immunizations [More]
Most people know that exercise of any kind burns calories. What few know, however, is that we burn more calories each day doing “nothing”. Our basal metabolism is what keeps the machinery of the body running, even at rest, and is responsible for the majority of calories burned in any given day. Inheritance greatly affects [More]
The key to saving lives from breast cancer is early detection. When women reach the age of 40 (or earlier if at high risk), it is recommended that an annual mammogram test is completed. Mammograms can’t keep women from getting breast cancer; their primary purpose is to assist in detecting breast cancer sooner than it [More]
Hyper-what? Why does my doc keep hounding me about my blood pressure? Let’s take the confusion out of high blood pressure by pretending your cardiovascular system is nothing but a system of the following three parts: Pump Pipes Filter The Pump: If any pump is required to push against higher pressures long enough, it is [More]
Has your doctor ever prescribed eye drops for you? Are you tired of trying to hold your eyelids open with one hand while attempting to land a drop in the eye? It seems many times patients blink just at the wrong time, or land the drop on their forehead or nose. Here’s the trick. Tip [More]
Imagine yourself in a third world country practicing medicine. The medical compound serves 30,000 or more people that depend on one medical staff person and traveling surgical teams to help people in need of care. In April 2011, Dr. Kevin Unger, a Urologist at ACMC in Willmar, gathered a team of local medical experts and [More]
Why does my child keep getting ear infections? I’m a parent too, so I feel your (and your children’s) pain! Here’s a simple analogy. Let’s pretend the eardrum is the bottom of an open, empty bottle. The space in the bottle is filled with nothing but air. If infection begins to accumulate in the open [More]
Biking has always been important to me; for more than 15 years I have biked to work, weather permitting, during the spring, summer and fall. Yesterday, I participated in the “Bike/Walk to Work/School Wednesday” in Litchfield where students and workers were encouraged to leave the car in the garage, skip the bus and instead walk [More]
