Portable and "wearable" computers, according to designers, are supposed to enhance the human experience. Like science fiction cyborgs with a fitting over one eye, the user goes through the world with "augmented reality," being…
This week's guest columnists are Dr. Jacob Sellers and Dr. Anna Malesky, Family Practice Residents at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. Imagine this. Your teen has been experiencing months of headaches,…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Irena Liang, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. It's a pumpkin-decorating party, and the carving tool seems safe. The edge is serrated, but the…
Sometimes I wonder what I'd be like if I was born in 1800. I'd be crippled, since I have an arthritis requiring regular medication. Once the arthritis affected my eyes and without medication, I might've become blind. Then one…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Meighan Anderson, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. She's 10 years old. She has asthma and eczema, but hasn't seen her regular doctor in a year…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Danielle Fuselier, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. It's the time of the year for leaves to change, pumpkin lattes to be served, and fall…
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-…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Alicia Ortiz, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. Every case is different. Sometimes it's a puppy playing with a toddler, a lick-fest gone wrong…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Rachel Kumar, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. Three year-olds sit on barstools. Three year-olds get the wiggles. And when you're in the…
Schoolteacher Jane Anderson Lemoine has lots of back-to-school stories- kids falling asleep in class and drooling all over their desks, a boy accidentally going to two social studies classes per day for a whole week and not…
Sometimes when seeing a patient in the Emergency Department, I discover the kid isn't vaccinated. The parents often say "I researched it" when explaining why they don't vaccinate. When I hear the word "research," I picture…
