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Gooda healthcare journal from sansumHealt clinic • issue 1 • summer 2011H SUMMER SKINCARE TIPS tips to protect your skin this summer my journey to hEalth with Julie McGovern Nutritious Summer BarbequE Tips SanSumCliniC.org re-launched to improve your access WELCOME a healthcare journal from sansum clinic issue 1 • summer 2011 We are pleased to debut the premiere issue of Good Health, our new magazine about Sansum Clinic is the largest healthcare in our community and healthy lifestyles. With insightful articles, interviews, independent nonprofit anecdotes, resources, and practical advice, Good Health is designed to provide you and healthcare organization your family a stronger connection to your healthcare. between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Francisco 2011 marks Sansum Clinic’s 90th Bay Area, providing the full Anniversary. Our longevity is due to our spectrum of services from ongoing investment in the latest equipment primary care to more than and technology and our recruitment of the 30 specialties. best and the brightest physicians, which combined, enable us to deliver the hi-tech and hi-touch elements of quality healthcare. Kurt N. Ransohoff, MD One of our founders, Dr. William David Chief Executive Officer Sansum, was a pioneering researcher who President and Medical Director was the first American to successfully isolate, produce and administer insulin to Paul R. Jaconette treat diabetes. We have maintained that Executive Vice President innovative approach and continually Chief Administrative Officer evolved the level of care available in the community. Our myriad healthcare advancements include the first renal Jill R. Fonte dialysis machine and the first kidney Director of Marketing transplant surgery in Santa Barbara. Sansum Clinic physicians performed Dru A. Hartley the first carotid and laparoscopic surgeries Director of Philanthropy and brought the first digital mammography services to Santa Barbara. The Clinic expanded care to residents with one of the first outpatient Urgent Care facilities, providing after-hours services that were open to the community. 24-Hour Clinic Operator We are always working to stay ahead of the community’s needs — advancing care in (805) 681-7500 addition to responding to present challenges. We are also pleased to announce the launch of our new and improved website (www.sansumclinic.org) designed to offer you easy access to our many resources and quality healthcare information. Sansum Clinic Corporate Office In our 90-year history, thousands of individuals have worked together at Sansum Clinic 470 South Patterson Avenue to care for the people of our community. Our focus on customer service and our multi- Santa Barbara, CA 93111 specialty model enable us to provide compassionate, lifelong care to the people of Santa (805) 681-7700 Barbara County, and countless visitors from across the country and around the globe. www.SansumClinic.org When we look ahead, we see a strong future based on our continued delivery of the innovative healthcare solutions that our patients have come to expect from Sansum Clinic. All gifts are tax-deductible We hope you enjoy this issue…and here’s to your good health! to the extent allowed by law. Tax ID #: 95-6419205 Sincerely, Kurt N. Ransohoff, MD CEO and Medical Director What Men Can Learn from Women Is it really a man’s world in the 21st century? Not according to a recent issue of The Atlantic, whose cover story by Hanna Rossin was entitled “The End of Men: How Women are Taking Control — of Everything.” One of the main points of the article is that success in the post-industrial world depends upon education, where women greatly outperform men and hence, the future could well belong to women. In part due to the loss of six million manufacturing jobs over the past decade, should prostate cancer be treated? How can we make the women now outnumber men in the workplace and now more healthcare system more male-friendly? These are some of the than half of managerial jobs are held by women. One treatable issues discussed at the recent Second Harvard Men’s Health medical problem afflicts four times as many men as women Conference which I had the privilege of speaking at in April of and holds men back both academically and professionally: this year. The conference organizer, Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. As a result, fewer men is author of several books on men’s health including than women enroll in college and more men than women Testosterone for Life in which he argues for the benefits of drop out, so today 60% of both bachelors and masters degrees replacing testosterone in aging men. Such benefits include are awarded to women. The net effect of these changes is that stronger bones and muscles, increased energy and sense of women’s incomes, which once lagged behind men’s, have now well-being, improvements in metabolism, and increased libido. equaled and in some areas surpassed that of men. Controversies persist in the medical literature on all aspects of prostate cancer from the benefits or lack thereof of screening to Are women the weaker sex? Not if looked at in terms of health. when and how prostate cancer should be treated. Despite their inferior health compared with women, men are much less likely to receive regular, preventive care than are My advice to men? Get regular, preventive medical care. women. When it comes to being proactive for better health, Don’t smoke. Exercise daily — at least a brisk half-hour men need to look no farther than women who are great role walk. Eat a lean diet of mostly whole grains and other plant models both personally by seeking medical care and on the foods and maintain a healthy weight. Consume alcohol in broader societal level by advocating for women’s health. moderation, not more than 2 drinks per day. Keep a positive mental attitude: prayer or meditation have demonstrated What are some of the major concerns of men’s health medical benefits. And remember — for a longer, healthier life, advocates? Is there an andropause in men similar to menopause women are usually excellent role models! R in women? Should we be screening for prostate cancer in men in the way we screen for breast cancer in women? How — David C. Dodson, MD, Internal Medicine Contents + Summer 2011 features departments 2 Keeping Families Focused on Prevention 8 Tips & advice Family Medicine with Dr. Ali Javanbakht 12 Technology update 4 my Journey to Health A Q&A with Julie McGovern 15 Donor Dollars at Work 6 Travel & Tropical medicine 16 letter from a Grateful Patient Chad Relief Foundation 17 meet Our new Physicians 11 advanced urology Care This magazine is not intended to provide medical Three specialists ready to serve care. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor. All information in this publication is for educational purposes only. SansumClinic.org • issue 1 • summer 2011 1 faMiLy MEdiCinE Keeping Families Focused on Prevention Not only does he feel lucky to have the opportunity to practice Dr. Javanbakht enjoys the opportunity to work with entire medicine near Santa Barbara where he grew up, Dr. Ali families and to help them address their health issues before they Javanbakht has a strong passion for what his patients can do become medical problems. He tries to focus his patients and as families, at home, to improve their health. their families on prevention. “We have access to great healthy foods and plenty of opportunities to walk those few extra steps Many of Dr. Javanbakht’s younger patients have a hard time to help keep ourselves fit. Learning what is good for you is pronouncing words like temperature or stethoscope, so when it easier than most people think. And I think it can be a lot more comes to his name, they just call him Dr. Ali, which suits him, fun when the whole family is involved.” just fine. The name of his website, Healthcrap.com, is a clear indication of his sense of humor and easygoing manner. Dr. Javanbakht also speaks Spanish, Farsi and French. His book, For the Health of It!, which is a collection of his most loved columns by the same name that have appeared regularly in “The great advantage of working at the Coastal View News, uses humorous analogies, everyday metaphors, and made-up organizations to humanize medicine, Sansum Clinic is the tremendous support covering a broad range of topics from illnesses, to medical and dedicated, professional staff that politics, to anatomy and physiology. When asked what he likes most about Family Medicine, his answer covers the same we have. It frees me to be a doctor, complex gamut of issues, only with a strong emphasis on getting to know his patients. “I have the opportunity to treat and to with the ability to focus my attention become familiar with entire families and that provides a perfect environment for primary care.” on my patients.” His own family and involvement in the community keep him In his bio he writes that as a boy he dreamed of becoming a busy outside of the Clinic. His wife is also a doctor and he clown or a soccer player, but “settled” on medicine instead. likes to add that he is “being raised by his two children” here The events that led him to begin his practice at Carpinteria in Santa Barbara. His dream of clowning for the circus never Urgent Care & Family Medicine in 2001, actually provide a materialized, but he still plays a competitive game of soccer and warming back-story for the dedicated team of physicians and his patients and colleagues are genuinely glad that he “settled” medical staff that have come together to serve the medical for practicing family medicine — here at home.