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  • What’s Good for the Heart is Good for the Brain (2/1/2022) Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT/5 a.m. ET Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022 DALLAS, Jan. 26, 2022 — The same risk factors that contribute to making heart disease the leading cause of death worldwide also impact the rising global prevalence of brain disease, including stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, according to the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease […]
  • What’s Good for the Heart is Good for the Brain (2/1/2022) Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT/5 a.m. ET Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022 DALLAS, Jan. 26, 2022 — The same risk factors that contribute to making heart disease the leading cause of death worldwide also impact the rising global prevalence of brain disease, including stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, according to the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease […]
  • Dr. Castellanos’s Most Unusual Experiences (9/10/2019) Case Two Around 1980 working with a group in Orange County, California. I was called to evaluate a patient in the emergency room at Canyon General Hospital. The history was that he was involved in an auto accident. Apparently, he lost control of his car on the 55 freeway and ended on the side of […]
  • Dr. Castellanos’s Most Unusual Experiences (9/10/2019) Case One Around 1980 I was working at El Centro Community Hospital. I Belong to a group of ER doctors with contracts at El Centro Community Hospital, Scripps Hospital, and Mission Bay Hospital in San Diego. I had alternating shifts at Mission Bay hospital in El Centro Community Hospital. One Saturday at El Centro Hospital, […]
  • How Doctors Die (6/16/2015) “Our patients get treated the way that we all want to be treated with respect, compassion and sensitivity! With the issue of death and dying, I tell patients that I try to provide the care that I myself would want or not want. This article on How Doctors Die is a excellent analysis of what […]

Other Stories

  • Patient Testimonial: Orlando Gallegos (1/10/2024) Orlando Gallegos Templeton, CA December 18, 2023 Testimonial: Doctor Alexander Castellanos I am pleased to endorse Dr. Castellanos (aka Dr. C) as the most qualified family physician in SLO County, whose major interest is to provide the best medical care to his patients. I’ve had the benefit of 20 years of the very best medical […]
  • The Meaning of the Folding of the Flag (7/30/2021)
  • The story of Laa-lex (3/24/2015) It was springtime again, the grasses are tall, the trees have bloomed, the fields were full of poppies. One morning heading back to the house after working the horses, I noticed one of our does give birth to a little one. The little one was no larger than a small cat, still wet, with mom […]
  • Kuate Horse Tricks (11/18/2014)
  • Concert in the Park 2014 (9/15/2014) On August 6, 2014, Dr. Castellanos once again participated in the annual “Concerts in the Park” held in Templeton Park. This time he played with The Soul Sauce Band. It was a beautiful event, opened by Dr. Castellanos playing the national anthem on trumpet: Coincidentally enough, this past weekend commemorates the 200th anniversary of our national anthem. […]