Message from the President - Herman H. Rappaport
To Those Who Want To Live Long and Healthy Lives
Starting a new business at the advanced age of 92 may be a bit unusual but learning what keeps me going may help you. I've learned that medicine is no longer a profession, it's a business and that only you, the patient has the strongest motivation to keep healthy! That may be a bit stretching it but the simple fact is that doctors, hospitals, drug companies only get paid when you are sick. YOU are the one who should be motivated to keep healthy! YOU are the one who should be investing in your future health because taking care of yourself is YOUR business!
As someone who has long passed middle age, I see a younger generation of baby boomers whose maturity has too often carried with it bad health habits. Many will lead to overwhelming health problems if not caught in time. It should be obvious that treating problems when they first appear is simpler and cheaper than waiting until they become very serious and expensive to treat. And now, with the economy tanking, retirement funds disappearing and cut backs in Medicare threatened, only you can make sure that your aging years will be healthy, long lasting and quality years.
I have been asked why I am still working why am I motivated to start Medical Wellness at my age. The answer is that I see very clearly the fears facing the elderly, especially how to keep healthy, maintain a quality lifestyle and remain independent. Medical Wellness and our doctors have these as our objectives.
Our company has focused on several major problems that are assumed to accompany aging. These are loss of one's mind, aging eyesight and loss of limbs from diabetes. Every thinking person is afraid of ending the last years, helpless and a burden to others all this knowing that the number with Alzheimer's disease, aging macular degeneration, diabetes diseases is growing every year. Although science has no cure for these illnesses, research has proven that their progression can be slowed down if caught in time they are not the inevitable result of growing old.
Investments for retirement get a lot of attention especially from aging baby boomers. I suggest that these same people pay even more attention to investing in their own health. It doesn't make sense, at least to me, to save very carefully for retirement and then spend all the money on doctor bills and medicines. A personal investment in one's future health pays the best dividends. Investments can evaporate good health will remain if cared for. You need not count on government to pay your doctor bills if you keep healthy!
Medical Wellness believes that its initial medicinals will slow the onslaught of senility, aging eyesight and diabetes.
Herman H. Rappaport
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