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Dr. Bill is the nom de guerre of William Thomas Stillwell, M.D.,
FACS, FICS, FAAOS, FAANAOS, FAAPGS. He is a licensed, board
certified orthopaedic surgeon, with nearly a quarter century of
clinical experience, and has served as Chairman of the Department
of Orthopaedic Surgery at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center,
Smithtown, New York until he retired in 2003, Associate Professor
of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at the State University of New York
at Stony Brook (1987-2003), Assisitant Professor before that, and
Instructor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at the College of
Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University (1982-1999).
He is also a member of the Arthroscopy Association of North
America, the Association for Hip & Knee Surgery, and numerous
professional and scientific societies, including his Fellowships in
The American College of Surgery, The International College of
Surgery, The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, The American
Academy for Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery, and the American
Academy for Postgraduate Surgery.
Dr. Bill was born in Brooklyn, New York and is a product of the New
York City educational system, with higher education through New
York Medical College, where he earned his Doctorate in Medicine in
1973. At this time, he also worked as a professional medical
illustrator and comic artist
His Internship and General Surgery Residency were at the Medical
College of Virginia in Richmond, Vurginia and his Residency in
Orthopaedics was at St. Luke?s Hospital, back in New York.
Subsequently, he completed his advanced training in Adult
Reconstruction as an Otto E. Aufranc Fellow in Constructive Surgery
at the prestigious New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, and
Tufts University, where he was a Visiting Fellow.
Thereafter, he began the private practice of orthopaedic surgery in
Commack and Smithtown, New York, on Long Island, in the summer of
1979. Five years later, he had a specialized practice in surgery of
the hip & knee and was appointed Chief of Orthopaedics. During this
period, he was also Director of the Fracture Clinic, at St.
Luke?s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in NYC. He introduced many
advanced techniques in joint reconstruction to the hospital,
including his pioneering work on standardized protocols, which
eventually became known as clinical pathways, decades ahead of the
rest of the field.
He has written (and often illustrated) a number of scientific and
academic articles, which have been published in peer reviewed
medical journals, and two major orthopaedic textbooks on advanced
joint reconstruction: The Art of Total Hip Arthroplasty (Grune &
Stratton, 1987), and Arthroplasty: An Atlas of Surgical Technique
(with coauthor W. Norman Scott, M.D., Aspen Publications, 1987). He
illustrated the latter two books, as well.
During his tenure as Chairman, Dr. Stillwell developed his
Department with one of the strongest rosters of surgical excellence
on Long Island and the region. His hospital became a widely
respected regional center of excellence for major joint replacement
and revision, arthroscopic surgery, and advanced spinal procedures.
He himself was publicly acknowledged as a regional expert in his
field, The Hip & Knee Specialist, with a regional, national and
international referral base. He was also invited, twice, to lecture
at the prestigious British Hip Course in Oswestry, Wales, in the
U.K., on advanced revision surgery techniques.
At the peak of his career, Dr. Bill sustained a fractured spine in
a fall, and after attempting to continue his work for over a year,
despite progressive pain, believing he was putting patients at
risk, he voluntarily resigned from his position and retired from
his practice. He now commutes seasonally between his main residence
in Central Florida and the ?Northern Command,? in Southampton, New
York. He lives with his wife of over 35 years and a whole lot of
cats.
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Posted: June 15th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »
This is sort of like saying, "If I poke myself with a
sharp object, will it hurt?" The answer to that would
be… yes.
Another manifestation of overtraining is: "If two
Powerhouse Omega gels at a time are good, then four must
be even better."
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In weight loss, it’s: "If I lose 10 pounds eating 1200
calories a day, then I’ll lose more eating only 800."
Overtraining is an addiction that isn’t good for you and
can be very harmful. If you’re no stranger to a gym, you
can pick out the overtrainers in just a few days. They’re the
ones running endlessly on the treadmill, Stairmaster,
or doing aerobics until the last instructor has left the
building.
Pill poppers, those who value quantity over quality,
are just wasting their money and overloading their
body with more of a single ingredient at a time than it can handle.
Their bodies usually reward them with bowel problems,
the kind that keep you within a few feet of the throne.
The calorie restrictors are putting themselves in the
most immediate danger. They are literally starving
themselves to death and medical intervention
is often required. Anorexics and bulimics fall into this category
and a lot of the damage they do cannot be repaired. It
also leaves them wide open for a host of diseases, down
the road, because their immune systems have been
severely compromised.
Many years ago, some colleagues of mine trained with
a very famous guru in the weight lifting field. They always
wanted me to go along, but I declined.
The guru was a believer in "progression," meaning that
you had to make progress from one workout to the next
and you always had to raise the bar, making the next workout
more difficult than the one that came before. This kind of
training is okay for young men and women, for limited periods
of time, but if you’re over 35, this isn’t what I would recommend.
The colleagues made progress for a while. They all lost weight
and got stronger. But the constant "progression" started wearing
them out. They only felt good about two days a week. The
day after a workout, they often had trouble walking, or bending
over, or getting in and out of the car. The guru assured them
that all these symptoms would go away.
They didn’t. They got worse. They quit, one by one.
In a month, they all felt better. They had learned a lesson.
Your body has limits and you had better listen to what
your body tells you. If you don’t, you’ll pay a price that’s
way too high.
I’ll be back tomorrow with more.
With my best wishes for your optimum health,
Dr. Bill
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Posted: June 14th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »
Last night, I settled into my recliner, figuring that
Miami would even up the series with Dallas, and
that there would be a huge Game 7 in Miami,
some time this week. David Stern is surely trying
to drag the NBA finals all the way to the 4th of July,
it seems.
I’m not much of a Miami Heat fan. I was never a
fan of King James, the entire seven years he played
in Cleveland, where he singlehandedly brought back
the word "choke."
Last year, Le Bron completely evaporated against
the Boston Celtics, like the rich kid who’d had enough
and was taking his ball home. And by the way, no
matter who LeBron plays for, he is very rich. His NBA
salary money, at about $22 million a year, is pocket
change, compared to his shoe money and other
endorsement contracts.
So LeBron took his ball and went to Miami, where the
grand experiment didn’t work, at first, and then, started
to jell. But I remained the defiant iconoclast, holding
out that LeBron is only a man when it’s easy. He got
through a triple of series like that, playing at being
Superman. He had convinced everyone I knew that
this was the year, the year that he brought home a ring
and championship trophy.
But there was this other guy who had a different idea.
The product of Wurzburg, Germany, who had a reputation
of being soft, or just a shooter. He was called Dirk and
he had a team of old guys, cobbled together with one thing
in common. They all wanted a championship more than
LeBron.
And LeBron showed up.
And fizzled and evaporated.
He wasn’t even man enough to face reporters on his own,
after the game.
How’s a guy like that ever going to win (except when it
doesn’t count)?
On streets all over America, today, kids are pointing at the
shoes and saying: "Loser. You’re wearing loser shoes."
And the man named Dirk now has respect. He got it the
old fashioned way… by earning it.
Conratulations to Dirk Nowitzski and Dallas!
ABL lives on.
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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.
With my best wishes for your optimum health,
Dr.Bill
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Posted: June 13th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »
Over the weeked, I attended a BBQ, which, thankfully,
was pretty close to the old hacienda. Anyone who reads
my daily missives knows that I am a meat lover
and good barbeque is at the top of the food chain, as
far as I’m concerned. There is just something utterly
primal about meat and fire.
In all the BBQ’s that I’ve attended over the years, I’ve
never left without a plate of something to nosh on a little
later, or the next day. But the string was broken over the
weekend by a guy who had great equipment, but no idea
at all about how to use it. (Funny…women have made
this same complaint to me over the years…about sex.)
Come to think of it, that would be a great book title, "Sex
and Barbeque." But then, anything goes great with sex, or
BBQ, at least up until this weekend.
My first tip that the food wasn’t going to good was that
the host spent an inordinate amount of time spraying his
expensive cooker and wiping it off, like it was a show car.
Real pit guys rarely, if ever, spray a cleaning solution any-
where near the grub.
Secondly, he had a timer system, more complicated than
anything I had ever seen before. Real pit guys often carry
a pocket thermometer, but rarely, if ever, use it.
Real pit guys know something is done by touch, feel, smell and
how something looks. They don’t usually have any fancy
gadgets, or things made of stainless steel.
The first time I was ever introduced to a pit guy was in
1979. His name was George and he was a union guy at
a packaging plant that made cans. George and a couple
of his friends built a smokehouse in his backyard. George
had a nice little side business going, where people brought to him
what they wanted smoked and they paid by the pound. So, for
instance, a big 24 pound turkey cost $24 to smoke.
George smoked meats of all kinds: poultry, duck, pheasant, cheese
and fish. I spent some time with him one weekend, as he took in fish
from Alaska. He would cut, bag and then brine the fish. Then, we
hung up 400 bags and he fired up the smokehouse.
The next day, I returned and we emptied out the smokehouse.
And, of course, we sampled some of the goods. (Heaven on a
plate!)
According to George, good BBQ consisted of :
1) Top quality product
2) The right seasoning mix, or brine, or both.
3) The right temperature
4) Patience…because timing is always approximate
It’s too bad my associate couldn’t have met George. All
that fancy equipment wasn’t getting him any kudos at all.
BBQ is a simple art that too many people want to complicate.
Taking care of yourself isn’t all that complicated either.
If you follow my advice, you can lose weight and reverse
years of bad habits in a short span.
And…you could eat a lot of Q. I’m talkin’ about the meat
…because those side dishes at BBQ won’t do your diet any
good, at all. The beef, pork, poultry and seafood, that’s all good.
The tater salad, macaroni salad, baked beans, cornbread and
sweets, you half to pass up, or limit yourself to a tablespoon,
or two. (Did you ever meet anybody who could eat just two
tablespoons of baked beans?) Me neither. Best to just leave
that stuff for some other fatso.
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When you get home, don’t forget to take an extra fish oil gel.
Here’s hopin’ that you get invited to a good BBQ, where the
cooker looks like it’s 30 years old and there’s no fool trying
to polish the lid.
I’ll be back tomorrow with more.
With my best wishes for your optimum health,
Dr. Bill
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