In the United States, all of us are supposed to have the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I would like to add the pursuit of health to those rights. It is difficult to be happy if one is not healthy. Health is not only the absence of disease, but also a feeling of complete well-being.

Physicians are constantly exposed to various types of stress. The definition of stress is the sequence of events that occur when perceived threats chemically activate the body's fight or flight response.

Although I am president of the Orange County Medical Association, I question whether it is really my medical association. Or is it our medical association? What exactly is a medical association?

We can capture a bigger pool of healthcare personnel by starting mentoring programs earlier-either in high school or junior high school. Exposing children to medicine at an early age can remove the fear and mystery of the medical sciences from these young minds as well as provoke interest.

A group of 32 organizations have met biannually since 2002 to assemble the best possible resources for providing culturally diverse health care, find solutions to the challenges of providing and funding interpreter and translation services, and more.

One of the known ways to achieve a healthy lifestyle to reduce oxidative stress is to practice the techniques of yoga.