Dr. Julie Gilbert | Oregon Weight and Wellness
Welcome to our Weigh Different Blog and allow me to introduce myself.
My name is Julie Gilbert. I am a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a family doc. I have been practicing family medicine in the Salem area since 1995. While I enjoyed all aspects of a busy family practice, I particularly appreciated getting to know generations of families and watching them grow.
It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. That morning, Kenny and I had enjoyed a beautiful worship service at a church in Portland we recently started attending, and then a leisurely lunch discussing the challenging sermon we just heard, and then, a luxurious nap. It was now 4:30pm and the sun hung low in the sky …
For the last several years, Elena and I have taken an annual mother-daughter trip, usually involving a long weekend at the coast or in the mountains. One year we hiked Mount Adams and slept under the stars without a tent. Last year marked our first international travel. Elena made all the arrangements for us to …
I feel very fortunate that my husband and I are on the same page about so many things. And I am not talking religion or politics, though we agree on most issues in those areas too. We share similar interests in recreation. We enjoy hiking, kayaking, gardening, walking on sandy beaches in Hawaii, and most …