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About Dr Leigh’s practice and primary care
About health insurance
Healing with food, nutrition, and herbs
Cookbooks and diet plans
Affordable medications
Self-quizzes, diaries, and inventories
Medical conditions
Babies and kids
Fertility and childbearing
Women’s issues
Chronic pain conditions
End of life
Anonymous support
About Dr Leigh’s practice and primary care:
Map to Dr Leigh’s
Video: visiting Dr Leigh
Exactly what is primary care?
Clinic policies
Your medical privacy
About medical identity theft
How to talk to a doctor
Your family history – print, fill in, and save!
About health insurance:
All about insurance
What is the Oregon family health insurance assistance program (FHIAP)?
What is the Oregon medical insurance pool?
Healing with food, nutrition, and herbs:
The jellybean protocol, for blood-sugar lows
Why fish oil? How it works
Choosing fish oil products – a cost-effective approach
Sodium vs. low-carb diets
Hidden salt and sugar in your diet (print using legal-sized paper)
About vitamin D and calcium
Dr. Leigh’s approach to herbal medicines
Making herbal tinctures at home
Treating pain with herbal tinctures, liniments, oils, and salves
Medical marijuana notice
Cookbooks and diet plans:
Dr. Leigh’s Ten-Week Vegan Cookbook
“Small is beautiful” – Dr Leigh’s cookbook for one (or two)
“Feeding the masses” – Dr Leigh’s vegetarian cookbook
Dr Leigh’s soup-and-bread cookbook
Keeping weight on (when you are underweight)
The Peace Diet: a stepwise approach to nutritional support for neurobehavioral and metabolic issues
Weight Loss Rx – demanded by some insurance companies
Dr Leigh’s 4-step diet plan (when you are overweight)
The diabetic diet
Weight-loss and diabetic shopping
Low carb? Watch out for breakfast!
Feed your family for $4 a meal, 2012 edition
Affordable Medications:
Diabetes on a budget
How to find low-cost dental care (Lane County)
What is the Oregon prescription drug discount card?
$4 drug list (one example)
Cheap inhaler program (Teva)
Cheap drug program (Rx Outreach), frequently asked questions
Cheap drug program (Rx Outreach), list of medications
Cheap drug program (Rx Outreach), application
Self-quizzes, diaries, and inventories:
Five year plan – for life change
Food diary – to evaluate nutrition
Food diary scoresheet
Multi-symptom diary
Ins and outs diary – for chronic intestinal problems
Ins and outs scoresheet
Walking diary, for breathing and/or heart trouble
Weird symptom questionnaire (for autoimmune and endocrine problems)
Personal headache history
Medical conditions:
Heart health:
“High blood”: hypertension and you
Cholesterol
Is this it? Warnings signs of stroke or heart attack
Digestion:
Dyspepsia (indigestion/acid reflux)
Constipation
Breathing:
How to quit smoking
Dealing with a cough?
Breathing exercises – for COPD, fibrosis, smoker’s cough, etc.
COPD rundown
Asthma: peak flow FAQs
Asthma action plan!
Nasal irrigation (doesn’t have to be a Neti pot!)
Communicable disease:
HPV testing
I’ve been exposed to HPV – now what?
What do my Pap results mean? (for females and males)
Hepatitis C facts
About the FLU
How to tell a virus (flu, cold, etc) from a bacterium (strep throat, pneumonia, etc)
Pertussis facts for grownups (the “90-day cough”)
Pinkeye
Skin, hair, and nails:
Sweaty palms? Hyperhidrosis
Ingrown toenails
Head lice
Poison oak, severe
Pruritus ani (“itchy bottom”)
How to use topical steroids
Blood and bones:
Anemia
Your bones and you – preventing osteoporosis and fractures
Miscellaneous:
Pelvic rehab: Kegels for men
Triggered: About trauma and stress reactions
Insomnia
Acute (new) back pain: what to do
Dizzy? Dehydrated? How to check orthostatic vital signs at home
Positional vertigo: treating it at home
The fitness pyramid – to restore physical fitness, in the context of age, illness, or injury
A graded activity program for chronic fatigue
Doctor’s fitness prescription
Chemo care: A 10-point plan
Babies and Kids:
New mom/new baby instructions – fridge sheet
What about circumcision?
How does your baby grow? (weight gain, etc.)
Pumping your milk: How, and how much?
Fever in babies and kids
Baby tylenol/ baby ibuprofen worksheet
All about baby teeth
Babies and food made easy
Natural remedies for kids
Pinkeye
All about head lice
Asthma: peak flow FAQs
Asthma action plan!
Pertussis facts
Standard and alternative vaccine schedules
Lead risk questionnaire
Oregon car seat/booster seat laws
Fertility and childbearing:
All about emergency contraception
Low fertility
During pregnancy, is it safe to… ?
Using meds and herbs during pregnancy
Pregnancy vs. migraine
Pregnancy vs. marijuana: relatively recent research
Round ligament pain
Women’s issues:
What do my Pap test results mean?
HPV testing
I’ve been exposed to HPV – now what?
Trouble down there? Managing women’s complaints at home
Leaking or prolapse? Kegels for women
The lady calendar: To track menstrual/ menopausal changes
Menstrual suppression using birth control pills
All about emergency contraception
All about bio-identical hormones
Breast cancer risk factors
Chronic pelvic pain in women
Pelvic pain: a 1-month exercise, diet, and herbal program
Chronic Pain:
The pain scale: what it really means
Chronic pain: how to deal
Acute (new) back pain: what to do
Piriformis syndrome: when chronic back pain isn’t from the spine
The bum ankle
Pelvic pain: a 1-month exercise, diet, and herbal program
“Fitness pyramid” for chronic pain and fatigue
How to treat pain with homemade herbal tinctures, oils, and salves
Prescription pain meds: Ran out early? Going cold turkey? Want to detox?
Controlled substance safety
Lawful prescribing: the DEA rules!
Too much Tylenol? Calculating your maximum dosage
Sample: Pain inventory
Sample: Personal headache history
Mental health:
Emotion vocabulary
Tips for schizophrenia and psychosis
The woman in the tower (an imagination story)
End of Life:
Basic instructions before leaving Earth
Liberation through hearing (Tibetan Buddhist, to be read aloud to the dying person)
Night chant (Navajo, from the Night Way, performed by the healing community, to restore harmony)
Mourners’ rights
Advance directive (living will)
Anonymous Support:
Introduction to AA and NA
Recovery vs. chronic pain
Local AA mtg list
Local NA mtg list
NA in the Roseburg area
