President’s Day
President’s Day – Monday, February 20th, 2017
OSS will be Closed in Observation of the Holiday.
If you are having a true Emergency, please call 911.
The practice will be open Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
Joint Replacement: Is It the Right Choice for You?
If you have arthritic joint pain and are considering joint replacement, you’ll want to attend this important class. Dr. Charles Peterson will discuss hip and knee replacement surgery. He will hold a Q&A session after his lecture for any questions.
Dr. Charles Peterson
Lecture + Q&A Session
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Seminar Location
Swedish Ballard
5300 Tallman Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107
Joint Replacement: Is It the Right Choice for You?
If you have arthritic joint pain and are considering joint replacement, you’ll want to attend this important class. Dr. Charles Peterson will discuss hip and knee replacement surgery. He will hold a Q&A session after his lecture for any questions.
Dr. Charles Peterson
Lecture + Q&A Session
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
6:00pm-7:30pm
Swedish Ballard Campus
5300 Tallman Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107
One Weight-Loss Approach Fits All? No, Not Even Close
By GINA KOLATA | DEC. 12, 2016
“Dr. Frank Sacks, a professor of nutrition at Harvard, likes to challenge his audience when he gives lectures on obesity.
“If you want to make a great discovery,” he tells them, figure out this: Why do some people lose 50 pounds on a diet while others on the same diet gain a few pounds?
Then he shows them data from a study he did that found exactly that effect.
Dr. Sacks’s challenge is a question at the center of obesity research today. Two people can have the same amount of excess weight, they can be the same age, the same socioeconomic class, the same race, the same gender. And yet a treatment that works for one will do nothing for the other.
The problem, researchers say, is that obesity and its precursor — being overweight — are not one disease but instead, like cancer, they are many. “You can look at two people with the same amount of excess body weight and they put on the weight for very different reasons,” said Dr. Arya Sharma, medical director of the obesity program at the University of Alberta.”