Dealing With Addiction
Drug court is still transforming lives here in Jefferson County. It's become clear that the officials involved and named below play a key role, without which the program suffers.
Make Our Roads Safer
Over 60 years of driving, I've been stopped for speeding several times and ticketed about half of those times. I have never contested a ticket Here's why.
Check-List for Elder Health Care: Looking Ahead
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.
The Value of Doing Nothing
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,
Check-List for Elder Health Care
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.
Learning to Live Together
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,
Toenail Fungus
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…
Little People
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!
We Can Make the World Better
A couple of weeks ago I was at dinner with some friends who are quite depressed about the current national situation. I expressed my view that we, individually and as…
Ayurvedic Remedies to Reduce Symptoms of Anxiety and Aging
This builds on our introduction to Ayurvedic medicine, a great place to start if these terms aren’t familiar to you. Favor warm, cooked, moist foods over raw or cold foods.
Drug court is still transforming lives here in Jefferson County. It's become clear that the officials involved and named below play a key role, without which the program suffers.
Over 60 years of driving, I've been stopped for speeding several times and ticketed about half of those times. I have never contested a ticket Here's why.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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…
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!
A couple of weeks ago I was at dinner with some friends who are quite depressed about the current national situation. I expressed my view that we, individually and as…
This builds on our introduction to Ayurvedic medicine, a great place to start if these terms aren’t familiar to you. Favor warm, cooked, moist foods over raw or cold foods.
Whether you use the saltshaker or not, you're better off switching out the contents. I use a mix of monosodium glutamate, aka MSG, & potassium chloride, a common salt substitute.
When in practice, I sent people with unexplained intestinal problems for colonoscopy. Often, it didn't reveal the problem. When the patient returned for a check up after that, frequently they…
In this version of the Pepsi Challenge, people were given plain water with or without a spoonful of MSG. Some had headaches, flushing, etc, from the MSG water and some…
Among the more wonderful medical words is bromodosis, the fancy word for smelly feet. This smell is the sign of bacteria eating the chemicals in your sweat.
Welcome Mary Flick, a Family Nurse Practitioner, to our staff. For some time we've been searching for a practitioner to specialize in women’s health. Consistently, many of you have expressed…
Image credit: James Tourtellotte - http://www.cbp.gov/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2296563 Let me tell you some stories about cops. It was 1966 and I put down my luggage and asked the New…
This is an up-to-date version of an explanation we handed out with blood panel results when we had a blood draw station at the clinic.
Commercials and the media promote the idea that we are happiest when we have the trappings of wealth. Then we can do whatever we want. We have freedom.
In the late 1970s, I was sitting in a charting station at Brookfield Hospital in Wisconsin. Next to me a social worker wrote in her records.
It was 1973, a time before seatbelts were universal, and I was a newly-minted doctor. Working in the ER, I saw my share of faces that had been in an…
