Managing Type 2 Diabetes
Recently I accompanied a dear friend on a visit to her great aunt who was dying in a hospital. The first thing Aunt Gert said to us was, “Girls, whatever you do don’t get diabetes. It’s the one thing I would have changed about my life.” Aunt Gert had been in the hospital for three […]
Male Menopause
In recent weeks we have explored the issues surrounding menopause for women. Many women have expressed their thanks for the information brought forth and others asked for information about their partners’ changing bodies and minds at the “change of life.” I decided to take an unofficial poll of some of my male patients this past […]
Make A Difference Day
If you are reading this on Saturday, October 26, today is Make A Difference Day. Make A Difference Day is a national event, created by USA Weekend Magazine, which is held on the fourth Saturday in October annually. It is a national day of service when neighbors help neighbors do things which need to be […]
Love That Laptop
We should know by now that all of life’s little “conveniences” come with their prices. We have all been warned about the dangers of standing too close to the now essential microwave. The potentially harmful emissions from cellular phones have haunted some of us who use them regularly. I treat many people who have fallen […]
Long Winter’s Naps
If you haven’t noticed, we are on the brink of our first cool snap of the year. It is well into the first part of November and I have a brand new Halloween sweater that still has the store tags on it because it was too hot for me to wear it this year. Oh, […]
Kids Don’t Choose to Smoke
After I dropped my nephew at school last Monday morning I started toward my office and had to spend what seems like forever waiting to turn at the intersection of Georgia Highway 22 and Roberson Mill Road/ 441 Bypass. As most people do, I started looking around at the people in the cars around me […]