Affiliated Community Medical Centers
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]
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]
Ever wonder about the alphabet soup called the cholesterol panel? Here is the basic analogy I give my patients, and it covers 90% or more of their issues. The more complex cases we will leave for another day. The LDL is your “bad cholesterol”, but we’re just going to call it the “garbage”. It clogs [More]
“What attracted me to ACMC was that the system is physician owned,” says Dr. Ross, “I also knew that someday I wanted to live on a lake. Lake property in the metro area was very expensive and so I decided to start looking at rural opportunities, and I gave ACMC a call. “One of the [More]
