This 16 year-old boy hurt his knee playing basketball, banging it into another player's knee. He was brought in limping by his mom. "Did you give him anything for pain?" I asked. "I gave him one of my prescription ibuprofens," mom…
When my wife was in college, years before we met, Saturday mornings boys would knock on her door: "Make us a gumbo!" This was in Wyoming where gumbo was rare, and she and her roommate, also from Lafayette, were popular for their…
This week's guest columnists are Drs. Mark Carreras and Jacob Sellers, Family Practice residents at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. When I was a kid, the last day of class would end with a final bell, and we…
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…
When I was a kid, McDonaldland wasn't a playground- it was a fictional place in Saturday morning TV ads. I was enthralled with those ads: the outrageous-looking puppets, the colorful sets, evoked a Disney-like magic. Unbeknown to…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Ashanti Smith, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. Every parent dreads: "Mommy..Daddy...my tummy hurts..." Sometimes they whisper this in the…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Justin Pratt, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. "Something isn't right. My baby only poops every three days, and all my friends' babies go…
Feeding babies manufactured formula in a bottle is a recent invention in human history. For hundreds of thousands of years, people fed their babies like every other mammal, with mother's milk. If mom or baby just couldn't make it…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Elizabeth Hunter, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. It's 10 pm and Sarah is pacing the floor, holding newborn Charlie. Charlie seems to be…
My wife's nephew Jordan had colic bad. In his first months of life he cried non-stop, only quieting in his swing. His mom was so frazzled from fatigue and frustration that when my wife offered to babysit for a weekend, she ran…
