Dr. Peter J. Weiss

It’s the end of another year, and I’m sure you’ve noticed, as I have, the uni­ver­sal media prac­tice of the “Year In Review” arti­cle.  Or some­times it’s the “Best of…” show like I’ve been hear­ing on National Pub­lic Radio (it seems like all week.)

Why should we be any dif­fer­ent – 2010 has been an amaz­ing first year for More Health Less Care!  Let’s take a look back at our jour­ney.

Jan­u­ary

• Dr. Pete says good­bye to his friends at Health First Health Plans, good rid­dance to the tra­di­tional health­care sys­tem, and turns Well­ness Evan­ge­list.  Within days of his announce­ment many in the well­ness com­mu­nity rally to sup­port him.  [You know who you are, and I am very grate­ful for your sup­port. — PJW]

Feb­ru­ary

• The More Health Less Care Alliance (The Alliance) is con­ceived over cof­fee at a beach­side café.  Dr. Pete, Coach Linda Cobb and Well­ness Entre­pre­neur Bill Ranieri team up to reg­is­ter The Alliance with the State of Florida and artic­u­late its mis­sion as “empow­er­ing Amer­i­cans to well-being.”
• Dr. Pete goes live on Face­book and Twit­ter.

March

• The Alliance’s 10 Core Beliefs and Pro­fes­sional Promise are final­ized.
• A focus group of 25 coaches enthu­si­as­ti­cally endorse mov­ing for­ward with build­ing The Alliance nation­wide.
• Design work begins on The Alliance web site.

April

• The book, “More Health Less Care,” is pub­lished.
• Dr. Pete speaks to sev­eral insur­ance indus­try and health­care groups on the con­cepts of more health and less care.
• Al Neuharth, Founder of “USA Today” and “Florida Today” endorses the work as “…the most prac­ti­cal book I have ever read about per­sonal health care.”

May

• The Alliance joins the local Cham­ber of Com­merce.
• Libraries across the United States bring the book, “More Health Less Care,” to their patrons.

June

• Dr. Pete speaks as the invited head­liner at the Florida Anti-Aging Expo at Florida Tech.
• The book “More Health Less Care” sells out first print­ing.

July

• The book “More Health Less Care” and Dr. Pete receive the endorse­ment of Robert Bald­win, Pres­i­dent of Chris­t­ian Care Min­istry.
• Dr. Pete quoted in “Women’s Health” mag­a­zine on “sur­viv­ing your doc­tor visit.”
• The Inter­na­tional Coach Fed­er­a­tion adds the book “More Health Less Care” to its vir­tual book­store of rec­om­mended books on Life/Personal Coach­ing.
• Well­ness coaches from Eng­land and New Zealand endorse the con­cepts of the book.

August

• Pas­tor Hoyt Byrum dis­cov­ers “More Health Less Care” and invites Dr. Pete to co-teach a course based on the work at Trin­ity Pres­by­ter­ian Church.
• Dr. Pete intro­duces his video blog.

MORE HEALTH LESS CARE exec­u­tives, staffers and sup­port­ers cheered Dr. Pete Weiss (below left) as he announced the for­ma­tion of the More Health Less Care Alliance at a press con­fer­ence in Sep­tem­ber 2010.

Sep­tem­ber

• The More Health Less Care Alliance opens for busi­ness with pub­lic press con­fer­ence and rib­bon cut­ting.
• The Alliance hires its first non-executive employee, Cliff Fontenot.  Cliff is ded­i­cated to cus­tomer and tech­ni­cal sup­port.

Octo­ber

• The Alliance launches the twice-weekly More Health Less Care talk radio show.
• Dr. Pete is invited to be guest blog­ger on Kev​inMD​.com, social media’s lead­ing physi­cian voice.
• Dr. Pete trav­els to Fort Worth to meet with coaches at the Inter­na­tional Coach Fed­er­a­tion annual meet­ing.
• America’s Health Insur­ance Plans picks up on Dr. Pete’s call for more health and less care and pushes it to its mem­bers and sub­scribers.

Laura Ingra­ham

Novem­ber

• The More Health Less Care Alliance web site comes on line.  Michael Edwards joins as the first pro­fes­sional mem­ber.
• The Bre­vard County gov­ern­ment endorses More Health Less Care and asks Dr. Pete to speak to its employ­ees.
• Over 200 well­ness coaches across the United States eval­u­ate the book “More Health Less Care” as a coach­ing tool for clients wish­ing to be healthy.
• The book “More Health Less Care” sells out sec­ond print­ing.
• Laura Ingra­ham, Fox News con­trib­u­tor and fre­quent host of The O’Reilly Fac­tor, turns to Dr. Pete for prac­ti­cal advice on healthy hol­i­day eat­ing.

Decem­ber

• More Health Less Care mag­a­zine debuts to wide­spread pos­i­tive review.
• The Alliance goes live on Face­book and Twit­ter.

So, it truly has been an amaz­ing year!  I want to thank all of you who have helped and sup­ported me, Linda, Bill, the Alliance, and the con­cept that Amer­i­cans can have more health and less care.  As we enter 2011, we’re excited about where we’re going from here.  We plan to grow and grow quickly.

Amer­ica needs what the More Health Less Care Alliance offers!  Join us!