Today, Dr. Bilge Gregory, MD is one of the foremost liposuction experts in the nation. She uses an advanced method of liposuction that causes no tissue destruction, preserves the tightness of the skin, requires no general anesthesia, and provides stunning results. However, she wasn’t already a cosmetic surgeon. For 18 years of her life, she was actually a practicing board-certified ER doctor.

Up until 2017, Dr. Gregory was working at a hospital in the Phoenix area where she worked ever since she graduated residency. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University medical school in 2000. In 2003, she completed her residency at the Maricopa Medical Center. She proved herself to be so good that she was hired right after her residency on a partnership at Chandler Regional Medical Center, becoming a partner in just one year. From 2003 to 2018, Dr. Gregory was working days, nights, weekends, holidays, and everything in between. After the center changed hands in 2015, she starting thinking about what her future in medicine was.

Fast-forward to 2018, and she fully opened up her own business focused on cosmetic surgery and regenerative medicine. She took the giant leap and gave up her career of 18 years because she listened to her intuition, which told her that it was time to become a different sort of doctor. While she still loved being a modern healer and serving others, she couldn’t see herself as an ER doctor any longer.

What cemented her transformation into one of the nation’s leading liposuction experts was a few traumatic experiences in 2015 and 2016, where she collapsed due to heart arrhythmia, breaking her skull and getting a concussion, as well as herniating a disc in her spine. This was some of the worst pain she had ever experienced in her life. These physical traumas sealed the deal for her to make some massive life changes. her life was never the same afterward

Today, Dr. Gregory puts everything she’s got into the patients she cares for. That is why she only commits to performing one surgical procedure a day. She understands that each patient deserves all of her love, attention, and care for that day. Dr. Gregory wants them to feel like they are special and getting exclusive care. She wants them to appreciate all the effort she puts into caring for them and helping them in their transformation journey.

Dr. Gregory is here to bring light to the world, one body transformation at a time. If she is able to help someone transform internally and externally to help them feel more self-love, then she has succeeded in her eyes. Dr. Gregory firmly believes that you can only give something to others that you have the capacity to give to yourself. Helping others begins with helping yourself, which is what she started out doing. Her own journey to greater self-love is one of the reasons why she has been so incredibly successful in helping others love themselves more.

You can learn more about Dr. Bilge Gregory’s revolutionary Fun Sculping procedure on the official website.

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The medical experts of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh have warned that ignoring the kidney stone pain can damage other parts of the body, which can be life threatening. They point out that one of the most commonly ignored ailments in people is renal stone disease (nephrolithiasis).

The Head, Department of Urology, Dr Ankur Mittal said that renal stones affect all ages from infancy to the elderly population and they are formed due to the super saturation of the urine with substances such as calcium, uric acid, cystine and oxalate. “In the initial phase these substances form crystals and around them there is further deposition and eventually a kidney stone is formed. Stones can either pass through the urinary passage and be extruded in the urine or lie asymptomatically in the kidney. It is when they get obstructed in any part of the kidney or urinary tract that symptoms develop,’’ he said.

The symptoms of renal stone disease include fluctuating and excruciating pain in the abdomen, groin and flank region that can lead to urinary tract infection with fever and chills, burning micturition and even passage of blood in urine. “An expert should be immediately contacted in case of excessive unbearable pain in the flank or in the groin,’’ the doctor suggested.

Dr Mittal said that one should drink more fluids to produce at least two litres of urine per day and various dietary modifications are advised in the form of a salt restricted diet, cutting back on the consumption of meat with avoidance of caffeinated drinks, nuts, foods that contain fructose corn syrup to combat the disease.

The Director of AIIMS Rishikesh Ravikant said that soon an ‘Advanced Urology Centre’ which is in its final stage of completion would start functioning in the institute. The centre would have a world class ‘Dornier lithotripsy machine’, and a radiology suite for urological interventions, he added.

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Many parts of Massachusetts are moving into a new phase of reopening Monday even as coronavirus metrics hit numbers that haven’t been seen since the height of the pandemic — leading medical experts to question Gov. Charlie Baker’s decision to forge ahead.

“We need to stay where we are and watch things carefully and keep our guard up,” Boston University infectious diseases specialist Davidson Hamer said. “I can’t read his mind, but I just wonder if he’s under a lot of pressure from businesses.”

All but 29 of the Bay State’s 351 cities and towns are allowed to move forward with step two of the third phase of reopening on Monday, which allows indoor performance venues, roller rinks and fitting rooms to reopen, places such as gyms and museums to increase their capacity and outdoor gathering limits to bump up to 100.

At the same time, the state’s coronavirus reproduction rate has climbed to its highest rate since the end of March, weekly case totals rose throughout September and new daily cases crossed 700 twice in the past week — a number not seen since the height of the pandemic.

Twenty-three communities landed in the state’s red zone for being at a high virus risk last week as well, the highest since the state switched to the color-coded risk assessment system in August. The seven-day average positive test rate has also ticked up over 1% again, after hitting a low of 0.8%.

“We’re at a point where caution and weekly reassessment is needed and if we make a mistake and things get out of control, we’ll have to go back to more draconian measures,” Hamer said.

Baker has repeatedly defended his decision to expand indoor dining and this week to increase capacity at retail and other establishments even as cases have started to rise, noting the state’s positive test rate has tumbled from 10% to around 1% for the past couple of months.

Contact tracing, he said, shows “the biggest concern” is “informal, no-rules, no-guidance gatherings” and not work.

“Some people are going to say we’re going too fast and some people are going to say we’re going too slow,” Baker said. But “we rethink the reopening pretty much every day.”

Dr. Irwin Redlener, head of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University, said there’s no cut-and-dried answer for governors, who have to play “3D chess” managing the at-times competing pressures of public health, the economy and the desire to get kids back to school.

“These are no easy answers to come by,” he said.

Dr. Todd Ellerin, director of infectious diseases at South Shore Health, said the uptick here is predictable with students returning to classrooms at all levels. But cases nationally and here in Massachusetts are “obviously going in the wrong direction.”

“I can’t fault the governor for pressing forward, although I have to say, this is a very tough time to do it,” Ellerin said. “I would feel more comfortable if this were the spring going into summer.”

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A number of medical experts are calling for obesity to be classed as a disease in order to encourage people to seek treatment.

John Wilding, professor of medicine at the institute of ageing and chronic disease at the University of Liverpool, and Vicki Mooney, executive director of the European Coalition for People living with Obesity (EASO), argue that the view obesity is “self-inflicted and that it is the individual’s responsibility to do something about it, is “inaccurate” and reinforces stigma around being overweight.

Instead, the pair believe that the role played by genetics combined with the illnesses created by obesity, such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and some cancers, means it should be defined as a disease.

According to the NHS, obesity is thought to affect around one in every four adults in the UK, and roughly one in five children aged 10 to 11.

Body mass index (BMI) is widely used as a simple and reliable way of finding out whether a person is a healthy weight for their height.

For most adults, the NHS states that having a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 means you’re considered to be a healthy weight. A person with a BMI of 25 to 29.9 is considered to be overweight, and someone with a BMI over 30 is considered to be obese.

Wilding and Mooney add that the Oxford Dictionary supports their argument with its definition of disease as “a disorder of structure or function … especially one that produces specific symptoms … and is not simply a direct result of physical injury”.

They also state that obesity, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that health may be adversely affected, has been considered a disease by the World Health Organisation since 1936.

“Studies in twins show that 40-70 per cent of the variability in weight is inherited,” Wilding and Mooney write in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) to bolster the theory that obesity is influenced by genetics.

“Body weight, fat distribution, and risk of complications are strongly influenced by biology – it is not an individual’s fault if they develop obesity.”

The pair add that recognising obesity as a chronic disease with severe complications rather than a lifestyle choice could help “reduce the stigma and discrimination experienced by many people with obesity”.

They write: “Instead of discouraging them from seeking treatment it should give them permission to do so.

“The stigmatisation of obesity leaves patients fearful of discussing their weight, and they turn to fad diets or non-prescription medication because they assume that their obesity is solely their responsibility.”

However, not all medical professionals agree with Wilding and Mooney’s stance on the issue.

In contrast, Dr Richard Pile, a GP from St Albans, said the Oxford Dictionary definition of disease “is so vague that we can classify almost anything as a disease”.

Also writing in the BMJ, Pile argues that recommending a change implies that current NHS and public health strategies are “doomed to failure without classifying obesity as a disease“.

”Labelling obesity as a disease risks reducing autonomy, disempowering and robbing people of the intrinsic motivation that is such an important enabler of change,” Pile adds.

“It encourages fatalism, promoting the fallacy that genetics are destiny.”

The debate in the BMJ follows calls from the Royal College of Physicians(RCP) in January for the Government and the NHS to urgently recognise obesity as a disease.

The RCP said it wanted to see obesity recognised as an ongoing chronic disease to allow the creation of formal healthcare policies to improve care both in doctors’ surgeries and hospitals.

It argued that obesity is not a lifestyle choice caused by individual greed “but a disease caused by health inequalities, genetic influences and social factors”.

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