What Causes Illness? What Causes Disease?
What causes illness? What causes disease? Are some people just born to be sick while other people spend their entire lives being healthy? I don’t think so. “Viruses and bacteria are everywhere we go and on everything we touch, but they cannot affect us unless we are susceptible.” Understanding the cause of illness allows us […]
What’s In Those Energy Drinks?
A couple of weeks ago several of our office staff went to Clearwater, Florida for our almost monthly management workshop. The workshop starts at 9:00 on Thursday morning after our flight arrives in Tampa at about 10:30 Wednesday night. By the time we get our rental car and get to our hotel, check in and […]
What was that Noise?
It is amazing what misinformation will do to people. Misperceptions about anything should always be met with education about it before irrational opinions are formed. When I was a child I wouldn’t eat spinach because I thought it would make me look like Popeye the Sailorman. I thought he was ugly and I didn’t want […]
Weird Week
Last week was a strange week for me. It was a very busy Monday at the office so I was definitely ready for my bedtime Monday night. It was one of those nights when, as I have heard my mom say before, I was asleep before my head hit the pillow. I was awakened from […]
Weekend Warriors
Mondays are exceptionally interesting days in our office. In addition to our regularly scheduled patients, we invariably see a string of souls who have gone out into the yard over the weekend and decided to re-landscape in two days. There are also those who haven’t swung a golf club in fifteen years but decided since […]
Watch Your Head
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about several people who were involved in automobile accidents in this area. One of them is a patient of mine who was forced to run off the side of the road and as a result rolled his truck several times. To make a long story short, he was […]