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  • Recently a patient consulted me about her 93 year old mother, crippled with painful arthritis. No ordinary pain medication allowed her mother to move comfortably.

    2026-10-05
  • The patient had entered the hospital a week ago with a stroke caused by bleeding into the brain. The bleeding seemed to have stopped. Now he had new, troubling symptoms,

    2026-10-01
  • !Depressed Elderly Man During the early eighties, I would occasionally travel to Ilwaco near the mouth of the Columbia River to cover the practice of a family physician there.

    2026-09-23
  • Years ago, I was talking to a friend who was a licensed counselor about my new relationship. In a previous conversation I'd complained about something she'd done that upset me,

    2026-09-07
  • OK, nobody dies of fungus in their toenails. But don’t you want to look at all your various parts and be happy about them? About a quarter of adults eventually…

    2026-08-11
  • Over the years I have collected solutions to many of life’s common problems, including parenting problems. Here are a few I wish I'd thought of about 40 years ago!

    2026-08-07