My 90-day Performance Optimization Program

Optimal Performance MD

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius, c.500 BC

Welcome to my medical practice. My name is Mitch Weisberg. I became a Medical Doctor in 1987, a Board Certified Internist in 1990,  and I am  proud to say that on October 31, 2014 I passed The American Board of Internal Medicine Certification Exam for the third time in as many decades. In addition. in 2006 I got certification as a Master Psychopharmacologist, which means I have much more clinical experience than the average doctor diagnosing and treating mental health problems.

For complete disclosure, in spite of my extensive education and training I must have slept through the lecture in which doctors learn that the mind and the body are separate. As far back as I can remember I have always thought of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health to be indivisible components of a single entity I like to call, a person. According to my clinical method, a symptom is whatever a person tells me is keeping him or her from feeling and functioning (performing) their very best (optimally). I spend my work-day helping the people I have the good fortune to call my patients optimize their health, wellbeing and performance. Here is how we do it:

My 90-day Performance Optimization Program

Helping you feel well so you can do well

Optimizing your health is a process. My 30 years of experience has shown me that it takes about 90 days to see a major improvement. We spend most of this time together identifying and eradicating the symptoms that are keeping you from feeling and functioning at your best.

Step 1

Our Initial Assessment

getting to know you

What is well-being? In my opinion, there is only one way to measure it and it is not with a blood test, CAT Scan, thermometer or a blood-pressure cuff. Your well-being is exactly what you say it is. So, the first thing I am going to do when we meet is ask you to rate your wellbeing on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 10. Next, I’ll ask you to explain to me in your own words what you feel is keeping your from being a 10. For the next 90 minutes I will carefully listen to your answer. By the end our initial meeting, I will share with you my unified theory of why you are feeling and performing as you are; and most importantly, together we will develop a realistic strategy for optimizing your health, wellbeing and performance. Here is the Intake form I want you to print and complete in preparation for our initial meeting:

The Optimal Performance MD Performance Intake Form

Step 2

The Process of  Performance Optimization

For the next 90 days we will stay in close contact with regular office meetings (or video calls if necessary) during which we will refine and execute our shared mission of optimizing your health, wellbeing and performance.

Step 3

Maintaining Optimal

At the end of our 90-day program, I offer you two options:

• You can continue working with me and I will be your Primary Care Physician.

OR

• I draft a comprehensive clinical summary and have and in-depth discussion with your existing Primary Care Physician so he or she can pick up from the point where you and I leave off.

If you are ready to get started, or if you have any questions please e-mail me at drweisberg@optimalperformancemd.com or give me a call at (847) 999-5120 x 1.

Welcome to Optimal Performance MD.

Mitchell R. Weisberg, MD, MP

Internist-Psychopharmacologist-Personal Physician at:

Optimal Performance MD

THE EXECUTIVE WHISPERER

Your mission is to create a High-Performance Organization.

You have invested significant capital and resource in attracting and retaining talent; the key asset in your organization’s portfolio.

You are committed to providing a workplace culture of continuous growth so you diligently measure the performance of your enterprise, your executives and your employees. You reward your stars and you find those employees who are lagging and need further attention.

You have all the personal attributes and tools of a high performance leader, which is rare and valuable in today’s highly competitive business environment.

However, in spite of these achievements some of your executives performance is lagging behind their true potential. You give them coaching and performance improvement plans. Yet, you are frustrated over the negative impact on your bottom-line from lost productivity and in the worst case scenario the financial and human toll from the loss and replacement of talent.

I am certain that I can help you.

I am a Board Certified Internist and a Clinical Psychopharmacologist with nearly 30 years of clinical experience in helping people optimize their health, wellbeing and performance.

I do much more than simply coach executives and employees.

Einstein said if he had just one hour to save the world he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and five minutes finding the solution. As a seasoned clinical neuroscientist I am able connect an executive’s performance to its structural underpinnings, thus defining his or her performance problem, from which I derive a solution. This is the tool in my skill-set that separates me from  all other executive coaches.

I don’t expect you to take my word for it, so please see what my clients have to say about my clinical services.

I offer my executive coaching services with strict adherence to HIPAA. I am confident that the performance outcomes of my executive coaching will speak for itself.

If I can be of service to you and your high performance organization, it would be my pleasure and privilege to serve.

Sincerely,

Mitchell R. Weisberg, MD, MP

The Executive Whisperer at Optimal Performance, MD

drweisberg@optimalperformancemd.com

Phone: (847) 999-5120

A Performance Driven Workplace Wellness Program

Leave the Well Enough Alone

Medicalizing Obesity

The Argument for the Rational Use of Prescription Medications for Treating Obesity

From a report in 2009, Obesity in the United States carried the hefty price tag of $147 billion per year in direct medical costs, just over 9 percent of all medical spending. People who are obese spend almost $1,500 more each year on health care — about 41 percent more than an average-weight person. The biggest driver of these excess costs are prescription drugs, the author said.

However, virtually none of these prescriptions were for the treatment of Obesity. Rather, they were for treating the health consequences, or co-morbidities of Obesity such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Osteoarthritis just to mention a few.The good news is, effective and safe prescription medicines for treating Obesity have been in existence for several decades. The not so good news is that very few of these medications are actually approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating obesity, and those that are FDA approved are rarely prescribed by US physicians. As preposterous as this seems in light of the burden of the the primary obstacle to Medicalizing Obesity is the Medical Establishment. For example, it was not until July 2013 that the American Medical Association (AMA) even recognized Obesity as a disease. In October of 2010 the FDA pulled the Obesity medication, Meridia (Sibutramine) from the market because in some patients it caused a rise in blood pressure and in patients with pre-existing coronary artery disease, Meridia caused heart attacks, some of which were fatal. While, high blood pressure or a fatal heart attacks are by no means minor risks, they are risks that can easily be avoided by any prescribing physician by following standard-of-care practices, such as monitoring of Blood Pressure and the appropriate screening for Coronary Artery Disease in at-risk populations. Furthermore, the majority of patients that experienced greater than a 5% reduction in their body weight while on Meridia enjoyed a net lowering in their blood pressure. The group of people prescribed Meridia are the same group with the highest risk for developing coronary artery disease, and physicians worth their weight in salt can fully assess their patients for coronary disease before, as well as closely monitor their patients’ blood pressure after prescribing Meridia for their patients. Apparently missing from the debate over withdrawing Meridia from the market place was consideration of the outcome of doing nothing about Obesity, which is as clear-cut a case of medical negligence if there ever was one. To add insult to injury, the medication Sudafed (psuedoephedrine), an over the counter decongestant, taken by millions of Americans every day, has a similar risk as Meridia for raising blood pressure and causing heart attacks in people with pre-existing Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). Seemingly, according to the FDA the benefits of clearing our stuffy noses warrants such risks while a clinically significant reduction in our body weight does not. To further illustrate the Medical Establishment’s perspective on Obesity, Aspirin which was first introduced to the marketplace by the Bayer Corporation in 1905, and the myriad of other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, that have proliferated since, cause 7,500 deaths per year in the US from gastrointestinal hemorrhage, most of which occurred spontaneously without prior warning. Why is there no issue within the Medical Establishment about the risks of these medications, which most of the time they are prescribed it is done so to treat the co-morbidities of Obesity? Yet if a medication that actually treats Obesity poses any of these same risks, it is pulled from the market? According to the prevailing perspective in the Medical Establishment, if you have pain and fever and happen to be obese the advice you will likely get from your doctor, will be to take two aspirins and call her after you become a contestant on The Biggest Loser. Clearly this is an irrational perspective and the time for a change is long overdue. In my next post, I am going to do my first comprehensive update since 2005 on the current medications available to treat the disease of Obesity, so please stay tuned.

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Mitchell R. Weisberg, MD, MP

Internist-Psychopharmacologist-Corporate Wellness Consultant

Founder-CEO and Personal Physician at,

Optimal Performance MD LLC

OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE MD; Optimizing Employee Performance for High-Performance Organizations

Your mission is to create a High-Performance Organization. You have invested significant capital and resource in attracting and retaining the talent that is the key to achieving your mission. You have come a long way in monitoring your employees’ performance in order to bench mark and reward your stars and find those employees whose performance is lagging and need attention such as performance coaching or a formal performance improvement program.

In spite of your efforts, you struggle with the fact that some of your employees’ performance is suboptimal, especially when considering the true potential you are certain he or she once had. Your frustration is not only about the tremendous financial toll from your Organization’s loss and replacement of a knowledge worker, but the human toll on the employee and his or her family.

As a Board Certified Internist and a Clinical Psychopharmacologist who has dedicated his 25-year medical career to optimizing the health, wellbeing and performance of his patients, I truly understand your frustration. More importantly, I have the knowledge and the unique skill-set to help your employees optimize their performance and meet their true potential once again or possibly for the very first time.

Would this relieve your frustration?

Mitchell R. Weisberg, MD, MP

Internal Medicine-Psychopharmacology-Performance Management

Founder-CEO

Optimal Performance MD LLC

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