Those Dreaded Side Effects

“So, it seems like the prednisone cleared up your allergic rash pretty well.  Did you have any side effects from it?” My thirtyish female patient looked at me with a little smile and responded, “Does the term, ‘Psycho Chick’ mean anything to you? I stuck with it...

Keeping Your Medical Care Personal

In my last article, I alluded to how medical care is changing at near warp speed, as the volume of new knowledge keeps doubling every few years or less.  There’s a load of good treatment and care, as well as improved outcomes that comes from that.  At the same time,...

Polymyalgia Rheumatica

Wow he’s really struggling coming up that hill.”  I was watching my eighty-something father-in-law labor up the hill to our house.  In context, you need to realize that, “Grandpa” is normally one of the most vigorous elderly guys you’ll ever see.  He generally comes...

Keto Krazy?

Trinity physicians emphasize nutrition as one of the key pillars of good health. We’ve used low carb and ketogenic (or keto as it is known) plans to reverse chronic disease, promote extraordinary weight loss, and often reduce the need for daily dependence on...

Medicine is Moving

           This has been a crazy, but mostly enjoyable week.  We moved our medical office about a half mile closer to the mountains on Rt. 321.  It’s exciting to see a band of workers busily laboring to turn a beautiful but empty shell of a building into a humming...

Iron

            “Goldilocks was hungry.  She tasted the porridge from the first bowl. ‘This porridge is too hot!’ she exclaimed. So, she tasted the porridge from the second bowl. ‘This porridge is too cold,’ she said.  So, she tasted the last bowl of porridge. ‘Ahhh, this...