On my first day of medical school, the dean gave a little speech about how it's stressful, and that the school had a counseling center for students when their anxiety got overwhelming. Though the course work is intense, the dean…
This week's guest columnists are Drs. Jordan Conway and Amir Farizani, Family Practice residents at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. Watching the instant replay, I saw exactly when Jared Cook lost…
I had my first "old coot" moment, when grampa yells at the TV when he sees something he doesn't like. For me, it was an ad for Miralax, a laxative. It depicted a young cheerful woman in athetic clothes saying "I choose Miralax…
Asthma has been with us for millenia. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, inventor of the Hippocratic Oath, first used the term (from the Greek aazein, "to pant"). The Greeks had treatments- adding ephedra (an epinephrine-…
