This week's guest columnist is Dr. Chad Mathews, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. Flu season is here. If you've never had the flu, you're fortunate. Dr. Hamilton tells the…
This week's guest columnists are Drs. Michael Johnson and Sam Defigarelli, Family Practice residents at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. The family returns from a cruise ship holiday in the Caribbean. …
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Allan Olson, a Family Practice resident at University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. It's mosquito season again- never far away in Louisiana. Usually bites are harmless, causing some…
My college required students to take four blocks of Physical Education, much like high school, except we chose the sports. We also had to pass a swim test to graduate. My roommate Brian, who'd never learned to swim, had to use…
If you think pediatricians don't make mistakes raising their own kids, think again!. My wife and I had just had our first baby. When our girl was 6 weeks old, my wife was getting cabin fever, stuck home breast feeding around the…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Eric Guilbeau, a family practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. Emma comes home from school and tells her mom that her belly hurts and she doesn't feel good. …
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Yamuna Jaladanki, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. The other day in the ER I saw two kids from the same family, one 11 months old and the…
Today's guest columnist is Dr. Jamie Collins, a Family Practice resident at the University Health Center here in Lafayette. It was the start of a great day for Kevin. It was Saturday and no school and no homework. However, Kevin…
I can still see my oldest daughter, 10 years-old then, with her forehead on the dinner table. She could not eat, her stomach hurt too bad. At that time she was having some school trouble, so my wife and I passed it off as…
When I was in high school, summers meant lots of exercise in the heat. I would go for runs with sweat literally pouring off my arms. Then came summer soccer practice- push ups and calisthenics, sprints and indian runs with grass…
I have had several personal fainting episodes in my life, some quite silly. For example, there was the time in high school biology class: I was to get a drop of blood from my fingertip to look at blood cells under the…
DODGING VOMIT I have gotten pretty good at dodging vomit over my years as a pediatrician. It only takes once or twice really to learn, after you have been hit. "Gastroenteritis", also called "stomach viruses," "stomach flu," or "…
