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Lifestyle & Wellness

Lifestyle & Wellness

What Are the Effects of Dehydration on Your Heart Health?

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Whether you’re going for a run, sit­ting on your couch recov­er­ing from a bad flu, or sit­ting out in the hot sun, you’ve prob­a­bly heard the same advice: Get plen­ty of fluids.

Drink­ing enough flu­ids pre­vents you from get­ting dehy­drat­ed. Dehy­dra­tion is more than just feel­ing thirsty – it’s when you lose or use more flu­id than you take in, and your body doesn’t have the water it needs to func­tion correctly. 

Stay­ing hydrat­ed is crit­i­cal for stay­ing healthy, and it’s espe­cial­ly impor­tant for main­tain­ing a healthy heart.

Conditions & Diseases

Conditions & Diseases

Living Again: A Story of Dialysis and Recovery

In Novem­ber 2023, Gerald’s health rapid­ly declined due to micro­scop­ic polyangi­itis, lead­ing to kid­ney and lung fail­ure. After some time with in-cen­ter dial­y­sis, he and his wife, Therese, explored peri­toneal dial­y­sis (PD) through Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG). With sup­port from QMG’s team, Ger­ald tran­si­tioned to home dial­y­sis, which improved his qual­i­ty of life and allowed him to trav­el again. 

Behavioral & Mental Health

Behavioral & Mental Health

The Magic of Empathy

To get past a dif­fi­cult emo­tion, you need to first iden­ti­fy and embrace that emo­tion. Once you know what you are feel­ing and why, you are able to move into a state of mind that allows for more effec­tive prob­lem solv­ing and deci­sion mak­ing. When some­one tells you to calm down, they are basi­cal­ly sug­gest­ing that you skip right past this step and move imme­di­ate­ly to the prob­lem solv­ing state of mind. That’s just not how we work. We need that in-between step of iden­ti­fy­ing the tough feel­ing and sit­ting with it for a minute before we can move for­ward. What’s miss­ing when some­one says calm down” is empa­thy.

Men's Health

Men's Health

Man Up 2025: Putting Men’s Health First

Join us Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 6, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at South Park in Quin­cy for the 5th annu­al Man Up event host­ed by Quin­cy Med­ical Group. This free event wel­comes men of all ages to enjoy food, fun, friends, and fel­low­ship — and most impor­tant­ly, make the most of free health screenings.

Among the providers you’ll meet is Ted, Direc­tor of Car­diac Ser­vices at QMG. Ted has been part of Man Up since the very begin­ning and is return­ing for his fifth year. He’ll once again be on-site offer­ing free EKG tests while also con­nect­ing with men in the com­mu­ni­ty about their health.