Taking, or not, one's own medicine; Doctors know what's good for them, but struggle to practice it.(LIFE - HEALTH)

0 Comments | Washington Times, The, December, 2006

Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Physician, heal thyself. But do they? The holiday season can be especially challenging. Think of all the cookies, candy and other tempting offerings from grateful patients and their family members showered on doctors already under stress in life-and-death decision-making specialties.

Dr. Robynne Chutkan, 40, a gastroenterologist affiliated with Georgetown University Hospital, knows about such temptations and avoids them. "My downfall is sweets. The minute stuff comes into the office, I take them to nurses at Georgetown and fatten them up," she says lightheartedly. "If I open one up, it is over." As director of the Digestive Center for Women in Chevy Chase, treating digestive disorders of all kinds, she is...