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Allan J. Hamilton, MD, FACS
Allan J. Hamilton, MD, FACS, Boomer-Living Director. After studying art in college, which earned him a career as a janitor, he went on to attend Harvard Medical School, and to become the chief of neurosurgery and chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. He currently holds a main appointment as a Professor of Neurosurgery as well as professorships in Radiation Oncology, Psychology, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Hamilton also is the Executive Director of The Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
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Boomers: Coming of Age and Old Age
Posted in: Search of Well-Being & Wellness Center |
The process of getting older reminds me a lot of what Ernest Hemingway had to say about going broke. He commented that people go bankrupt in two ways: “…gradually and then suddenly". That seems to...
Tags: fact of life, health care providers, mortality, psychological factors
Baby Boomers: Are We Sick of the Right and Left? When Does Common Sense Prevail?
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I’m supposed to write a column about wellness. Wellness describes a state of sustained health, harmony and wellbeing. But, I reserve the right to occasionally write about state of dis-ease. States of...
Tags: american values, human trafficking, illegal immigrant workers, us mexico border, work ethics
Baby Boomers and the Lessons of Change from the Great Recession
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The Great Depression shaped two earlier generations. It changed how our parents worked and saved. It haunted my grandparents. As hard as it has been to experience this most recent economic turmoil, we...
Tags: baby boomers, economic calamity, economic turmoil, grandparents, retirement portfolio
Baby-Boomers: The End of Multi-Tasking Is Single-Mindedness
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A few decades ago, there was a wonderful commercial hawking a margarine that had less fat but all the taste of butter. It was so good that even Mother Nature was fooled but, at the close of the commercial,...
Tags: brains, focus, multi-tasking, thinking style
Baby Boomers: When Parents Forget
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
...
Tags: baby boomers, faculties, parents, river of forgetfulness
Baby Boomers in the Cold on Global Warming
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As baby-boomers, we must face the possibility that our generation may go down as the most despised in history. Why? Because, despite being the wealthiest and most politically powerful generation...
Tags: baby boomers, ecological awareness, green peace, organic vegetables, rain forests
January—Renewal…Again?
Posted in: Wellness Center & Wellness Side of Life |
You can tell when it’s that time again. Somewhere between the bizarre, Euro-styled perfume ads before Xmas and the speed-rap Super Bowl flat screen sales, there’s the flood of dieting ads...
Tags: Allan Hamilton, new year, resolutions, super bowl, whole grain
Meet Our Directors
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Seasons Greetings from Boomer-Living.com
Meet Our Director
ALLAN J. HAMILTON
We wish you and your family a very happy Holiday Season and a New Year filled with peace and prosperity.
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Tags: Allan J. Hamilton, holiday season, new year, peace, seasons greetings
Boomer Holidays
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As boomers, we have a big handicap as we approach the holiday season; namely, the clichés don’t sound quite as corny as they used to and begin to sound as if they actually mean something as we...
Tags: boomers, greatest gifts, holiday season, peace on earth, profound gratitude
“Please Step to the Right, and Leave the Left Side of the Escalator Free for Those Who Wish to Go Faster “
Posted in: Search of Well-Being & Uncategorized & Wellness Center |
My uncle died suddenly last week. He was in his late seventies. He had just come home from the office. He had walked the fourteen blocks to and from there as he did every day, mostly five days a week,...
Tags: courage, fond memories, smile, well wishers
Has Healthcare Reform had a Cardiac Arrest?
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The debate over healthcare has loomed large on the national stage this year. Naturally, few topics draw as much political attention (or zeal) as this one among our generation of baby boomers. For good...
Tags: baby boomers, health care costs, healthcare system, insurance coverage, political attention
The Greatest Medical Discovery of All Time-the Silver Bullet for which Humanity Has Been Waiting
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The scene looks like this: CNN has live coverage of the announcement at one of the world’s leading medical centers. The cameras are currently holding on an empty podium, bristling with myriad microphones.
The...
Tags: medical center, medicine, research
Allan J. Hamilton, MD, FACS
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Allan J. Hamilton, MD, FACS, Boomer-Living Director. After studying art in college, which earned him a career as a janitor, he went on to attend Harvard Medical School, and to become the chief of neurosurgery...
Tags: american health care, renowned surgeon, university of arizona health sciences center
Why Am I In My Own Way?
Posted in: Search of Well-Being & Wellness Center |
Often we undertake bringing about healthful, positive changes in our lives, but we always seem to find ourselves falling short of our expectations. Our resolution just seems to eventually fizzle out. We...
Tags: positive changes, weight loss exercise
Job Redux and the Third Chapter
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The downturn in the economy has done us a favor in a strange and back-handed fashion. As many of us boomers watched our retirement accounts and 401Ks lose half of their value during 2008 and 2009, we begin...
Tags: boomers, early retirement, retirement accounts
Renewal
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Every morning, we wake up to a choice: status quo or something better? We must decide if we are content to live as we have been doing or do we, can we, change? Wayne Dyer has summed the challenge like...
Tags: inspiration, personal vision
Mom – The Fifth Commandment
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Real loss never hits until it gets personal. Till it’s someone you love. Till you feel it. Up until then you’re just talking about it but you’re not living it.
Two weeks ago my eighty-three...
Tags: grandparents, parents, second chance
Getting Your Affairs in Order: Tell Stories
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When you hear a doctor tell a patient, “It’s time to get your affairs in order” that’s usually medicalese for “the end is near.” Well, the end can be around the corner for any of us.
Therefore,...
Tags: first world war, korean war, remembrances
The Fit and the Wine
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My patient was little more than a month or two from dying—at best. A malignant brain tumor would be the cause of her death. Many times this cancer had gripped her in wave after wave of epileptic seizures....
Tags: epileptic seizures, medications, red wine
Do We Just Die or Don’t We?
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Recently I was on a book tour in Seattle. At the end of my talk at the bookstore, a gentleman came up to me. He was a physician, which is a rarity at my talks. Most doctors are uncomfortable attending...
Tags: soul mate, spirituality
What’s So Bad About the Right?
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The left side does all the talking. It’s where speech, logic, analysis—all the cognitive skills so valued by our society—come from. The left hemisphere of our brain is our species’ crowning evolutionary...
Tags: cognitive skills, left hemisphere, right hemisphere
Stalking Well Being
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I think a lot about spirituality. I write about it. So when the editors invited me to submit regular blogs to Boomer-Living.com, I thought it would be fun to share my thoughts with a similarly-minded...
Tags: self help books, spirituality
