Healey on Health

Gregory J. Healey MD

Nov 2016 · Xlibris Corporation

About this ebook

Humor and entertainment, reflection and inspiration, information and advice are all to be found in the column titled Healey on Health as published in the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. In his weekly column, Dr. Greg Healey has served up a mlange of medical news, health information, personal experience, and good sound advice, all from the perspective of a lifelong small-town family doctor, father, and grandfather. This book is a compilation of his columns as written from 2013 to 2015. With a conversational style and humor drawn from his real-life experiences, Dr. Healey manages to convince the reader that they are sitting in his office, having a casual but meaningful discussion about matters concerning health and everything else. The newspaper column was always meant to help inform and entertain the local community and it is hoped the book will do the same for the extended community. And if you get a chuckle or two out of it along the way, Dr. Healey will be enormously pleased.

About the author

Greg Healey has been a practicing physician for thirty-eight years in a small-town Canada and upstate New York. He has been, for all of this time, an old-school general practitioner, looking after people from conception to grave. During his professional life, he has also raised a large family and been a vital part of his community. He trained at the University of Toronto Medical School and attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, for his postgraduate studies. He has been involved for most of his career in the teaching of medical students and residents both in the United States and Canada. He has recently been honored as the NYSARH Rural Health Practioner of the Year. He has also received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Upstate University Medical School in Syracuse, New York, and his wife, Mary Anne, currently lives in Canton, New York.