- With Mayo Clinic oncologist
Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
read biographyclose windowBiography of
Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
Edward Creagan, M.D.
"The magic of the electronic village is transforming health information. The mouse and keyboard have extended the stethoscope to the 500 million people now online." — Dr. Edward Creagan
The power of the medium inspires Dr. Edward Creagan as he searches for ways to share Mayo Clinic's vast resources with the general public.
Dr. Creagan, a Newark, N.J., native, is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and hospice medicine and palliative care. He has been with Mayo Clinic since 1973 and in 1999 was president of the staff of Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Creagan, a professor of medical oncology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, was honored in 1995 with the John and Roma Rouse Professor of Humanism in Medicine Award and in 1992 with the Distinguished Mayo Clinician Award, Mayo's highest recognition. He has been recognized with the American Cancer Society Professorship of Clinical Oncology.
He describes his areas of special interest as "wellness as a bio-psycho-social-spiritual-financial model" and fitness, mind-body connection, aging and burnout.
Dr. Creagan has been an associate medical editor with Mayo Clinic's health information websites and has edited publications and CD-ROMs and reviewed articles.
"We the team of (the website) provide reliable, easy-to-understand health and wellness information so that each of us can have productive, meaningful lives," he says.
Latest entries
- Learned optimism
April 3, 2013
- Recognizing that life is unfair
March 20, 2013
- Your attitude affects your reality
March 6, 2013
- To mend you must let go of anger and resentment
Feb. 20, 2013
- Does nature or nurture dictate your path in life?
Feb. 6, 2013
Free
E-newsletter
Subscribe to Housecall
Our weekly general interest
e-newsletter keeps you up to date
on a wide variety of health topics.
Mayo Clinic Housecall
Stay up to date on the latest health information.
What you get
- Free weekly e-newsletter
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- Recipes, tools and other helpful information
- We do not share your e-mail address
Stress blog
-
July 6, 2011
Aging athletes show you can't outrun time
By Edward T. Creagan, M.D.
The scene is all too familiar. The aging athlete whose skills are clearly eroding but who can't give up the spotlight and the applause. The sports legend struggles to stay in the game despite being outshone by younger athletes. At the obligatory press conference about his retirement, the fading star finally acknowledges that he can't outrun his birth certificate.
| Need more help? |
|
If the stress in your life is more than you can cope with, get help right away.
|
Everyone has limits, but most are slow to admit it. I include myself in that group. Having completed 11 marathons over 50 years of competitive running, I'm fairly knowledgeable about the science of distance running. At least I thought so. But I ignored one crucial piece of information.
It's well established in the running world that mileage should never increase by more than 10 percent a week. In other words, if you've been averaging 30 miles a week, your maximum mileage the next week should be about 33 miles. For some reason, however, I thought I was immune to this concept.
Because of a ferocious winter, my mileage was down to about 25 miles a week. Even so I decided to run a 13-mile race — a 25 percent increase in mileage. After the race, I had aches and pains in parts of my anatomy that I didn't even know existed. I thought I'd need a forklift to get me out of bed. Finally, after days of misery, I began to feel halfway human again. I could even walk down the steps without holding onto the handrail.
I learned an important lesson: You can't ignore the numbers. At least not without suffering the consequences. Can anyone else relate to my somewhat humbling experience?
33 comments posted
Share on:
33 comments posted