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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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Another Warning For Fat Fockers

Posted: August 19th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

Yesterday on the news, there was a pretty decent segment

on the perils of being overweight. I say pretty decent, because

television reporting is, more often than not, off the mark when

they do segments on disease. Most of the time, they give you

a big headline, make a quick stab at the subject and then it’s

time for a commercial, or something really important, like a

story about why the metro escalators never work and how

hatd it is for people to actually walk up the steps.

If it were up to me I would make everyone walk up the steps,

because it’s good for them. This would undoubtably cause

much consternation,and bring out the ACLU, who would

remind everyone about the right to be a fat focker, which

automatically gives you a right to an escalator.

I try and remind everyone at least once a month, and

maybe more, about the Perils of Being Porcine. I have

told the story about the warning given by the chief

executive of a major pharmaceutical company, which

was, in a nutshell, "Do not let yourself become fat!"

His reasoning, after slogging through 20 year’s worth

of research and development, was that being humongous

is a breeding ground for almost every disease under the

sun. That may be good for the bottom line at the large

pharmaceutical companies, but it’s very bad news for

you, if you happen to fall in the swollen category.

In the segment I watched yesterday, the really bad

news was for men. That doesn’t mean that women

are unaffected by the obesity factor, but that their

numbers were just slightly lower than men overall,

in this particular study. In my reading of the results,

the dangers are just as great for women.

If you are overweight, and this means you do not

have to be obese, you are courting 8 of the 10 major

killers, in terms of disease. Men are increasing their

chances of getting heart disease by 70%. That’s a

phenomenal chance you’re taking by carrying a beer

gut, spare tire, jelly belly, whatever you want to call

it.

As a society, we have embraced the spare tire, often

as a sign of success. It’s time to stop, because

carrying that sign of success also means that Joe

Black is just around the corner (a really bad Brad Pitt

movie, I once had to endure).

Take it from a former fat guy, it’s time to shed the

flubber. If you want to sit in the Obamacare lines to

see a doctor, that’s all well and good; it’s your time

to waste. But it is possible to live in good health, with

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I Left His Tickets At The Window

Posted: August 18th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

A couple of days back, I had tickets for a major league

ball game. As happens sometimes, a conflict arose that

left me unable to attend. These were pretty good seats

and if I couldn’t go, I thought somebody else should have

them, so I left them at the window. The girl inside asked

me who she should give them to, and remembering it

was the anniversary of the death of one E. A. Presley,

I said to give them to Elvis.

This caused the girl to laugh, and she said, cracking her

gum and everything, "He’s dead…ain’t he?"

"You never know," I said.

It’s been 34 years since Elvis Aaron Presley walked

anywhere, that I know of. In some year, which escapes

me, but it was the year he looked good,and was wearing

the black leather outfit, a friend offered me a ticket to see

him. I was studying for an important exam at the time and

going to a concert would have involved central nervous

system depressants and maybe alcohol, which would not have

helped me one bit. I passed on the one chance I had to

see the King.

My friends told me it was one of the greatest things they

had ever seen. They also said that about every band they

ever saw, including Grand Funk Railroad, which should give

you pause.

The next time I thought about Elvis was when they announced

that he was dead.

Then, he was brought back into my memory bank by a couple

of afternoon drive DJ’s, whose names escape me, but they

were both fat…and funny. They had a routine they used to

do on Elvis trivia, on the third Friday of every month. The first

time I heard it, I almost had an accident, because I was laughing

so hard.

That day, they focused on Elvis’ s health and the condition of

his body, when it was examined. As we all know, Elvis was a

porker when he died. He was so big that he couldn’t even get

outfits made for him. (Did you know that he named all his outfits?)

The contest they had that day was for contestants to guess

the weight of Elvis’s colon on the day he died. (All this information

can be found.) I ended up sitting in a grocery store parking lot,

laughing my S off.

What happened to Elvis is what’s happened to scores of men.

He got so fat, his heart couldn’t push the load anymore. Add

in the drugs and alcohol, and you have a recipe for death at

an early age.

Even without the drugs and alcohol, Elvis wouldn’t have made

it to 45. There was just too much stress on his heart.

There are a lot of men out there that live like Elvis. By that,

I mean they eat too much, drink too much and put enormous

pressure on their hearts, to keep up. You can only do that for

a short period of time, before the hammer comes down.

The time to get healthy isn’t next year, or next month.

It’s now.

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Was Warren Buffet Trying To Help Obama

Posted: August 17th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

The other day, before the country’s Great Mouseketeer

set off on his Magical Misery Tour of the Midwest, the
80 something year old Warren Buffet said that the country’s

billionaires had been coddled by Congress for too long and that

they should pay up.

Mickey the Great (Obama), then used what Buffet said

as a justification for his "Tax the Rich" program. Buffet

is a longtime Democrat and a liberal, to boot. He is joined

at the hip with his buddy Bill Gates and both are big time

billionaires.

Both of them have put the lion’s share of their money in

each other’s foundations, exempting it from taxation, forever.

Whatever income they now draw, while still in the millions,

is a paltry sum, when compared to the money they have

taken out of circulation. Buffet said he only paid around

17 K in taxes last year and many in his office paid more.

Gates, when asked several years ago about the number

one reason for his success, replied candidly, "We (Microsoft),

knew the tax code better than anyone in the world."

So now, Buffet says the rich should pay more. But he did

make some distinctions, even though most of what he said

was just grandpa grandstanding about an issue he isn’t ever

going to face.

He said those with an income of over $1 million dollars

should pay "a little" more. Then, he said that those with

an income over $10 million should "pay more." He never

did define what billionaires should pay.

He didn’t say anything about those with an income of

"$200,000" or more, where Mickey and his Magical

Misery Tour want to draw the line. Buffet at least knows

where a line could be drawn.

But what’s missing from this whole debate (although

it was mentioned by Buffet), is a reform of the Tax Code,

wherein everyone would pay. (This is, of course, the Flat

Tax). The problem now is that 50% of the people in this

country pay no tax at all. None! Nada! Zip! (And this

number is going up…not down).

Here’s the Dr. Bill Solution:

If you don’t pay taxes…you cannot vote.

Simple. If you don’t pay, you don’t play.

There’s a businessman I know, a very successful

guy, and he’s always ranting and railing about politics.

One day in his office, he was on the phone during one

of his rants, and his secretart said to me, "I wish he’d

just shut up about the politics…he’s never voted in

his life."

Now…I have to admit, this was quite a shock, but

I also have to admit there are a whole lot of Bandwagon Bobs

out there. My tax solution would be easy. You go to

register to vote and you bring along a card that says

you paid taxes last year, or, that you are currently paying

taxes. If not, sayonara baby! Pay the piper, or shut your

pie hole, that’s the ticket.

Warren Buffet was trying to help Obama, but more than

anything…he was trying to help himself. You see, a

recession is very good for Buffet, who hasn’t picked

particularly well the last few years (see analysis of

Berkshire Hathaway). But, when stocks come crashing down

and you happen to have a bucketload of cash…it becomes

much easier. Buy low…Sell high. And lately, Buffet is

doing a lot of buying.

Staying healthy is recession proof. You don’t need

Obama, or Buffet, to get yourself in shape and the

investment is small…compared to being unhealthy

and visiting the doctor on a constant basis. You can

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off Norway. My Powerhouse Omega Formula is not

the stuff you find on the shelf whe,n you go shopping.

It’s like the difference between buying a Mercedes

or an old Ford Pinto. The PInto might indeed be

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How The King Made A Serious Mistake

Posted: August 16th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

I’m hanging out in my office, where it’s quite peaceful.

The better half is out doing whatever it is women do
under the guise of the salon. I learned long ago not to

even inquire which salon, or for what purpose. So when it

comes up, I just nod.

I picked out a book on Abe Lincoln because whenever

I read one of the many Lincoln books I have around, I

always come across a good story. Today was no different.

One time, Abraham Lincoln read a story about a certain

King who wanted to go hunting, and he asked the Court

Minister if it would rain. The Minister told him the weather

would be fair.

Setting out, the royal party met a farmer, riding a jackass.

The farmer warned the King it was going to rain. The King

laughed, went on, but no sooner had he got started hunting

than a heavy downpour drenched him and his party. He went

back, threw out the minister and called for the farmer.

"Tell me how you knew it would rain?" asked the King.

"I did not know, Your Majesty. It’s not me, it’s my jackass.

He puts his ears forward when it’s going to be wet."

The King sent the farmer away, had the jackass brought in,

and installed it, instead of the minister.

"It was here," said Lincoln, "that the King made a very

serious mistake."

"How so?" asked someone in the audience.

"Why…ever since that time…every jackass wants an

office!"

Ain’t it the truth!

I found another gem a few pages later.

Speaking of a fellow lawyer, Lincoln said, "He can

compress the most words into the smallest idea better

than any man I have ever met."

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A Very Sobering Tale

Posted: August 15th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

Not all stories have happy endings.

I don’t like to focus on negative things, but I

thought you should hear this story, because

actions can have severe consequences.

About two decades ago, I met a salesman

named Greg. I can’t even remember what he

was selling at the time, but he had this very

likable quality about him. Somehow he managed

to look disheveled, in spite of nice clothing and

spotlessly shined shoes.

He asked me questions I normally wouldn’t answer

to anyone, much less somebody I just met, but

somehow, I just felt comfortable with him. The other

thing that stood out was that he had an extremely

droll sense of humor that was quite appealing.

I became a customer of his and over the years,

we became friends. We had known each other about

ten years, when he mentioned that his wife was a

diabetic. He told me that she was having a lot of

problems, because she wouldn’t follow any of the

rules the doctor laid out for her and he literally

had to force her to take her medication. I advised

him to seek psychiatric help, which he did. The

doctor diagnosed her with severe depression,

which is a side effect of diabetes, made worse

by not taking the proper medication.

She improved for a time with anti-depressants, even

taking her medication without a fuss. Then one day,

she announced she wasn’t going to take any more

medication. This scared the hell out of Greg, who went

to see the doctors himself and the prognosis they

gave him was dire. Sooner or later, she would slip into

a diabetic coma, and then die.

Greg hired a nurse to watch over her, hoping she

would take some medication, but she refused. They

tried to control her food, but she would cheat whenever

no one was watching.

She fell into a coma one day and died about 45

days later. Greg then fell into a depression himself.

He wasn’t suicidal, but as he will tell you himself, he

was in deep water.

I got him to start walking and boy…did he walk. Miles

and miles and miles. Then, I got him to start using fish

oil and he seemed to wake up. He is seeing a very

good psychiatrist ,now, and is really coming around, to

the point he won’t need therapy for very much longer.

Our friends, the British, have been using fish oil to

treat depression for a decade, with very positive results.

Their most impressive results have been with teenagers

and what they would call "hooligans". Studies there

attribute about two thirds of aberrant teenage behavior

to an imbalance of omega-3′s.

In other parts of Europe, fish oil is a first line of defense

against a host of ailments and it’s always given before any

drugs are used.

Someday ,we’ll get there.

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Do You Want Your Kids To Be Fat

Posted: August 14th, 2011 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »