Dr. C.V. Alert, MB BS, DM. FCCFP.Family Physician. When faced with a challenging situation, there are two basic options: attempt to tackle the problem, or turn your back on the problem and hope that miraculously that the problem will disappear. In political terms this latter is often termed ‘kicking the can down the road’. A […]
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Dr. C.V.Alert MB BS, DM.Family Physician. Many years ago, when calypso singer Arrow, regarded as the first soca superstar from Montserrat, asked ‘de party people’ “How you feelin ?” their popular reply was “Hot hot hot”. This was a monster hit, and even got adopted for the Cricket World Cup here in the Caribbean years
Dr. C.V. Alert, MB BS, DM.Family Physician. Nutrition plays a significant role in health promotion and in disease prevention and management. To avoid various disease states, advising persons on variety, balance, and moderation of foods, is important in promoting a healthy lifestyle. It is perhaps unfortunate that, in Barbados today, we have so many unhealthy
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Dr. C.V. Alert, MB BS, DM. Family Physician.Dr. D. C. Scantlebury, MB BS , DM, FACC, FACP, FSCAI. Consultant Interventional Cardiologist.Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados. May 17th 2023 is World Hypertension Day. Hypertension is one of the most prevalent chronic illnesses in Barbados, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados (HSFB) joins Medical
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Dr. C. V. Alert, MB BS, DM.Family Physician. As far as health trends go, there is almost universal acceptance that, in the last few decades, we have moved from an era of communicable (infectious) diseases to an era of non-communicable diseases, the NCDs. Today it seems that the two eras are trying to see which
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Dr. C. V. Alert, MB BS, DM. (Family Medicine), FCCFP. Family Physician. Fellow, Caribbean College of Family Physicians. There have been advances in a number of specific clinical areas of cardiovascular disease prevention and management over the last two decades that offer the Caribbean Family Physician the opportunity to improve the management in Caribbean patients,
Dr. C. V. Alert, MB BS, DM. (Family Medicine), FCCFP. Family Physician. Fellow, Caribbean College of Family Physicians. The Family Physician in the Caribbean, part of the team of Primary Health Care workers, serves on the front-lines in battling not one but two pandemics, an chronic non-communicable (NCD) pandemic that has been around for a
Dr. C. V. Alert, MB BS, DM. (Family Medicine), FCCFP. Family Physician. Fellow, Caribbean College of Family Physicians. There is no doubt that the ‘cutting edge’ management of the non-communicable diseases, the NCDs, in particular those with a cardiovascular and/or a metabolic component, is changing rapidly. Almost annually there are new evidence based guidelines for
Dr. C.V. Alert, MB BS, DM. Family Physician. Isolation Vacations Inc, a subsidiary of Corono-virus Families International (CVFI) is pleased to invite anyone and everyone to a series of isolation parties in a neighborhood near you, for Crop-Over 2022. CVFI includes popular strains like the wuhan strain, the delta strain, and the newest members of
Crop-Over parties 2022 – All are invited. Read More »
Dr. C. V. Alert, MB BS, DM.Family Physician. In the old days, sometimes referred to as the good old days, when you heard that someone was very ill,or heaven forbid had died unexpectedly, one could generally assume that that person had ‘real realhigh’ blood pressure, or was a ‘bad’ diabetic. Life, in the days before
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