I am Dr. Robert Lemmon.  I have been a family doctor for 14 years.  I practice in rural South Carolina at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.  My areas of special interest are evidence based medicine, obesity, type 2 diabetes, lipid disorders, diet and physical fitness.

An informed, inquisitive, skeptical and even cynical patient is a good patient; same for the doctor.  I hope this site will help my readers become good patients.  My advice: Get a feel for what is good evidence.  Get a feel for risk and benefit.  Beware of quacks. Do not become dogmatic. Welcome a good argument.  Do not develop an emotional attachment to your beliefs.

I decided to start blogging  for 3 reasons:

1.  Because my profession, Family Medicine, is dying.  Maybe I can help save it.

2.  I want to help people become better patients (see above).

3.  I want to help people improve their health.

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