ocvietammd

OCVietAmMD is a blog whose author is a board certified internist who went to medical school to learn how to become a versatile doctor.  She then sought masters throughout the world to teach her about healing.  Two decades later, she realized MOST of her time in front of patients was spent not just teaching but entertaining them.  That is, distilling down complex medicalese into basic language–often times translating from one language to another–and then offering these encapsulated bitter-or-sweet pills (or messages) in compact, sometimes humorous but always humanistic messages that they could swallow and hopefully, digest.

In today’s ultra-fast, hyperwarped cyberspaced-out world, where high-tech healthcare is often times inaccessible to the vast 99% of us, OCVietAmMD hopes to shed light on what’s latest, greatest or worst about modern medicine.  Reviewing the medical and lay literature and repackaging it in a more appetizing capsule for the day, this blog strives to bring important news and views on ways to improve health for individuals, communities and global villages.  Here, readers’ thoughts, experiences and conversations on what is working or NOT working for them to attain WELLNESS are welcomed.  Applying East, West, North and Southern traditions, remedies, potions and lotions which do not discriminate by creed, color or ethnicity, we want to provoke readers to voice their inter-generational and cross-cultural opinions on well-being.

So on this day, 4/10/2012, during National Poetry Month, on the 44th anniversary of the assassination of the beloved Dr. Martin Luther King (4/4/68), on the 37th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam-American War (4/30/75) and the 20th Anniversary of the LA Riots (4/29/92), OCVietAmMD aims to drive respectful, at-times difficult dialogues on multi-cultural issues, multi-racial relations and diversity to empower its followers to stay informed, inspired and engaged.  By inter-connecting, perhaps, we can transform ourselves and each other.

Because the greatest hope is that, someday, when the OCVietAmMD’s toddler son comes of age, he can still look at the world with ever-hopeful eyes and a generous, loving heart, certain that, as members of the human race, “We CAN, ALL get along!” — Rodney King (1992).