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Stay Off My Operating Table

Stay Off My Operating Table

Written by: Dr. Philip Ovadia
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I was a morbidly obese heart surgeon.


All through high school, college, med school and surgical training, I followed the U.S. dietary guidelines for both diet and exercise. Yet nothing I did kept the weight off.


I just kept getting fatter and fatter.

Each day in surgery, I would split open the chests of people just like me. I knew I was heading for the operating table myself if I didn't find solutions that worked.

In 2016, I finally found a way to lose 100 pounds and keep it off.

Now - in addition to doing heart surgery - I work to help people just like me get healthy, lose the weight and keep it off.


I'm Dr. Philip Ovadia, the rebel M.D. and cardiac surgeon who is working to keep people off my operating table.


http://ovadiahearthealth.com/whitepaper/

Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

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    Medicine has always positioned itself as the authority — the place you go when something is wrong, on its terms, in its building, by its schedule. But the infrastructure built to support that model may now be its biggest liability.

    Dr. Ami Bhatt, Chief Innovation Officer of the American College of Cardiology, has a front-row seat to what's breaking down and what's quietly beginning to work. What she sees isn't a technology problem. It's a relationship problem — between patients and the systems meant to serve them, between clinicians and the tools being handed to them, between the pace of innovation and the inertia of institutions that were never designed to move.

    She's not here to predict the future. She's already living in the parts of it that are functioning. And what she's learned about why good technology fails — and why broken systems persist — applies far beyond cardiology.

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    Website: dramibhatt.com
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    Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

    Order at Amazon: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

    Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

    Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:

    • Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    • Jack Heald: @JackHeald5

    Books:

    • Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    • Stay Off My Kitchen Table on Amazon

    Learn More:

    • Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
    • Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health
    • Jack Heald's website: CultYourBrand.com

    Theme Song : Rage Against
    Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
    (c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

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    BIG IDEA: As long as diabetes exists, you will have heart disease — no matter how low you drive your LDL.

    Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

    Order at Amazon: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

    Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

    Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:

    • Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    • Jack Heald: @JackHeald5

    Books:

    • Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    • Stay Off My Kitchen Table on Amazon

    Learn More:

    • Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
    • Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health
    • Jack Heald's website: CultYourBrand.com

    Theme Song : Rage Against
    Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
    (c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

    Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

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    Send Dr. Ovadia a Text Message. (If you want a response, you must include your contact information.) Dr. Ovadia cannot respond here. To contact his team, please send an email to team@ifixhearts.com

    Order at Amazon: Stay Off My Kitchen Table

    Like what you hear? Head over to IFixHearts.com/book to grab a copy of my book, Stay Off My Operating Table.

    Ready to go deeper? Talk to someone from my team at IFixHearts.com/talk.

    Stay Off My Operating Table on X:

    • Dr. Ovadia: @iFixHearts
    • Jack Heald: @JackHeald5

    Books:

    • Stay Off My Operating Table on Amazon
    • Stay Off My Kitchen Table on Amazon

    Learn More:

    • Take Dr. Ovadia's metabolic health quiz: iFixHearts
    • Dr. Ovadia's website: Ovadia Heart Health
    • Jack Heald's website: CultYourBrand.com

    Theme Song : Rage Against
    Written & Performed by Logan Gritton & Colin Gailey
    (c) 2016 Mercury Retro Recordings

    Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from Dr. Philip Ovadia.

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