Solmaz Amirnazmi is a lifestyle and internal medicine physician.

How this physician’s self-care awakening helped her lose weight and take control of her health

Physician
March 21, 2022

For many of us, the term self-care is synonymous with self-indulgence. I used to think so too. Our thoughts immediately race towards behavior requiring us to take time away from our loved ones or shortchange them of our responsibilities.

As a child, I looked to my parents as prime role models. They were first-generation immigrants from Iran who were trying to uphold their …

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How this physician’s self-care awakening helped her lose weight and take control of her health

Prevent the spread of COVID-19 with telemedicine

Conditions
March 13, 2020

I am a board-certified internal medicine physician practicing in a small outpatient clinic with a highly reputable academic organization in the greater Boston area.  Regarding COVID-19, I am not panicked, but I am concerned– concerned for our patients, concerned for our workforce and health care providers, concerned for our parents and loved ones.

The situation in Massachusetts and across the country is evolving rapidly in response to COVID-19.  In the past …

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Prevent the spread of COVID-19 with telemedicine

It is both a privilege and an honor to be a primary care physician

Physician
October 21, 2012

With all of its frustrations and challenges, I love my job.  In fact, the very things that make primary care so difficult and often times exhausting are also what make it in my opinion the most awesome field in medicine.

When I was in grade school, I wanted to be a physician.  My parents would take me to the pediatrician for routine check-ups or when I wasn’t feeling so great and I remember …

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It is both a privilege and an honor to be a primary care physician

Shift the cultural obsession away from skinny

Physician
May 6, 2012

If you Google “skinny definition” what will pop up is the following:

Adjective: (of a person or part of their body) Unattractively thin.

The word skinny according to Webster’s is defined as the following:

1. resembling skin: membranous
2a. lacking sufficient flesh: very thin: emaciated
2b. lacking usual or desirable bulk, quantity, qualities or significance.

So how did our culture take this word and use it to represent a goal, or rather set “skinny” as a …

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Shift the cultural obsession away from skinny

Physicians do not receive adequate training in nutrition

Physician
January 7, 2012

As an MD, nutritious and healthy cooking and eating are very important to me.

We as physicians do not receive adequate training in nutrition, healthy lifestyle choices, and disease prevention in general while in medical school or in residency.  On top of that, we work long and difficult hours, often overnight shifts during which we consume processed, fatty foods, void of any nutritious value and we find ourselves suddenly with an …

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Physicians do not receive adequate training in nutrition