This week’s guest columnist is Taylor Phillippi, MD, a Family Medicine resident at Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics.
February was American Heart Month, promoting cardiovascular health. This was easy for me; my husband…
This week’s guest columnist is Aminah Phelps, MD a Family Practice resident at Ochsner University Hospital& Clinics.
It’s gumbo weather! Nothing bad about that! I remember when my my three-year-old got burned from trying to…
Last week I saw yet another teenager with chest pain. He'd been lifting weights, and now his chest hurt, particularly when he moved his arms. Diagnosis: costochondritis, a common condition in kids where the ligaments of their…
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…
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…
I had funny feelings in my chest. Because both my brothers had cardiac issues in their 50s, and I was about to go on a hiking vacation, I was a little concerned. So while at work, I asked one of the nurses to check my EKG. Her…
My son's transcript showed he had failed Business Law, a bad start for a kid considering applying to law school for...business law. After emailing his professor to ask the particulars, he stumbled through the day in a haze of…
