Lifestyle & Wellness

The ongo­ing COVID pan­dem­ic has affect­ed us all in one way or anoth­er. These times have brought many chal­lenges, which can sig­nif­i­cant­ly impact all aspects of your life, includ­ing your job.

Thanks­giv­ing is tomor­row, so I thought we’d talk about our ungrate­ful lit­tle brats, whoops, I mean our lit­tle dar­ling angels for a minute. But seri­ous­ly, kids can appear to be rather greedy and self-cen­tered at times. It’s in their nature. They are hard-wired for sur­vival but don’t yet under­stand the dif­fer­ence between ​“wants” and ​“needs.” So when they are los­ing their mind because you won’t buy them can­dy at the gro­cery store a mere twen­ty min­utes after you bought them some­thing at the toy store, it’s because their devel­op­ing brains are mis­in­ter­pret­ing your ​“no” as a threat to their needs being met.

Illog­i­cal, maybe. Annoy­ing, def­i­nite­ly. But the abil­i­ty to be thank­ful isn’t born in — it’s a skill that has to be learned.

Nation­al Pet Day is a time to cel­e­brate the fur­ry (or feath­ery, or scaled!) com­pan­ions who enrich our lives. But beyond the cud­dles and cute antics, pets offer a sur­pris­ing range of ben­e­fits for our phys­i­cal and men­tal health.

Our Quin­cy Med­ical Group Behav­ioral Health team shared some ways pets can be ben­e­fi­cial for your well-being:

Last week, I tried to con­vince you that like cake, you need stress in your life. But also like cake, if you don’t have enough or if you have too much, it’s a prob­lem. So how do we find and keep that sweet spot of just enough stress? Spoil­er Alert: There is no cake involved.

A quick Google search for the ​“best stress man­age­ment tech­niques” will tell you that eat­ing right, exer­cis­ing, get­ting enough sleep, med­i­tat­ing, and liv­ing in the moment are some of the best ways to deal with stress. It’s true; those are def­i­nite­ly very effec­tive ways to keep your stress lev­el low.

You know that feel­ing when you’re all caught up at work, the house is clean, the laun­dry is done, your eye­brows are per­fect­ly shaped, the bills are paid, the lawn is mowed, no one is whin­ing, the sun is shin­ing, and all is right with the world?

Being a doc­tor wasn’t always what Dr. Mary Doell­man, an ENT physi­cian at Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG), had in mind. As a child, her first dream was to be a roller skate wait­ress, but she quick­ly dis­cov­ered that roller skat­ing wasn’t her talent.

With March being Nation­al Kid­ney Month, now is the per­fect time to give your kid­neys some love and atten­tion. One of the best ways to do this is through prop­er nutri­tion. Ang­ie Zanger-Geisel­man is the Dial­y­sis Coor­di­na­tor at Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG) and a Reg­is­tered Dietit­ian spe­cial­iz­ing in renal health.

Cold and flu sea­son has arrived, bring­ing with it a resur­gence of myths and old wives’ tales regard­ing reme­dies and pre­ven­tions. You may have come across some of these time-hon­ored pieces of advice hand­ed down through gen­er­a­tions, but how much truth do they hold? To help us nav­i­gate the facts and fic­tion, we con­sult­ed Dr. Ernest Wal­lace, a physi­cian with QMG Now Urgent Care at Quin­cy Med­ical Group.

Hav­ing an estab­lished rela­tion­ship with a pri­ma­ry care provider pro­vides many ben­e­fits to your health. A provider who knows you and your health his­to­ry can more effec­tive­ly treat ill­ness­es as they arise.