<span itemprop="author">Becky Purkaple, MD

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Overcoming health challenges: one patient’s story

The patient was a typical one in my primary care practice, and for those of you in my field, one familiar to you as well. Jim, as we will call him, was a middle-aged, obese male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes, whose most c…