“BUT HE HAD THE PNEUMONIA SHOT, HE CAN’T HAVE PNEUMONIA!” said the distraught daughter of an elderly man in a nursing home with a severe case of pneumonia. She had...
Got a headache? Before you reach for that bottle of ibuprofen, there are a few things you should know. Ibuprofen belongs to a class of drugs called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs...
There are a hundred million cars on the roads in the United States. Traffic generally moves along very well, as long as everyone obeys the rules. Signs on the side...
Bob came in with left-sided abdominal pain. He didn’t actually come in willingly. His girlfriend dragged him in against his will. He reluctantly consented because he was in so much...
We watch ads on television or the internet that tell us about adult ADHD and wonder, “Do I have ADHD?” See our quiz below to find out! The fact is,...
The heart is just a pump, a muscle. It’s simple. It squeezes the blood inside of it and valves determine how the blood flows through it. Each time the muscle...
“THAT’S MALPRACTICE!” ...The cardiologist was yelling this to me over the phone. Tom, the cardiologist's patient, stopped taking Atorvastatin (Lipitor) because it wasn’t working. Tom initially had a stent placed...
Yesterday I went to visit a friend of mine. But at the house his wife warned me that he was doing a “liver flush” and didn’t want to be disturbed....
Marilyn struggled with constipation and abdominal pain for as long as she could remember. As a child, she remembers having stomachaches. Her doctor diagnosed “irritable bowel syndrome” (IBS) and gave...
“It’s easy for you, you’re so thin…” a middle-aged, obese woman with many health problems said to me mournfully. She’s discouraged because she can’t seem to make her program work....
“Grandma fell and broke her hip!” is an all-too-common phrase in our society. People fear this because it often indicates the beginning of the end. Hip fractures lead to immobility...
A patient is taken to the Emergency Department of his local hospital with signs and symptoms of a stroke: one-sided weakness, speech changes, facial droop, severe headache, numbness on one...
