Mark E. Williams, MD

About

Mark E. Williams, MD, is currently certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. He has an active clinical practice in Wilmington, NC. He is the author of 5 books and more than 100 peer-reviewed and Internet articles on various aspects of geriatric medicine. His latest book is Nail the Diagnosis: What Our Fingernails reveal About Our Health and Illness

Books by Mark E. Williams, MD

Recent Posts

Meditations Dealing With the Emotional Challenges of COVID

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been reflecting on all the ways our lives have been affected. This post shares past reflections relevant to the new context in which we age.

Aging Well, Even During COVID-19

5 secrets to aging well can also help us address the stresses of living in a pandemic.

Shifting Our Perspective on Death

Are we really likely to die in a manner characteristic to the way we have lived?

How Exercise Promotes Our Health and Longevity

Do I really have to exercise 30 continuous minutes a day? Spoiler alert: Yes!

End of Life: Why Do We Live as Long as We Do

A Personal Perspective: Cellular immortality in higher creatures is not good for the organism.

The View from Within

What does it mean to have most of one’s life span gone? What is left to do with a limited, finite future?

Aging and Productivity

Older people are not a disenfranchised minority; they are ourselves in the future. A delicious irony: Those with negative views of aging have sealed their own futures.

How Social Context Shapes Our Views on Death

What will we leave behind when we die?

Ideas on Aging From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

Luigi Cornaro (1464-1566) lived to 102. He wrote 'The Sure and Certain Method of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life' when he was 83. What did he know that we don't?

Welcoming Death

If your life expectancy was immediately extended to the age of 150 years, what would you do with your additional time?