Entries by drjohnskennedy

Breast Health In The Time Of COVID-19: Volume 3

I am continuing my list of 19 steps you can accomplish to improve your breast health, during this COVID pandemic.  My first volume was about mammograms. In the second volume  I touched on alcohol, smoking, weight gain, hormones, sleep, and pregnancy.  Let’s continue.   #7        Take some time to exercise every day, for about 40 […]

Breast Health In The Time Of COVID19: Volume 2

19 Things to Do to Promote Breast Health during the COVID- 19 Pandemic In my first volume, I explained what to do if your screening mammogram has been postponed.  In this volume I will touch on diet and some other factors that can affect your breasts. There are so many disruptions in our daily routines […]

Breast Health In The Time Of COVID: Volume 1

If you are like me, you may be spending hours a day catching up on what new information there is about the pandemic.  With the “stay at home” directives, it is hard to get yourself up and out to do any exercise, and I’ve heard reference to the “COVID-19 pounds” we may gain before it’s […]

Final Installment in Series of 5: “Nurse Kay”

My first rotation as an intern at Grady Hospital was on the Orthopedics team.  We would manage all the patients with broken bones, no matter what the age.  And so it happened that our team went to the pediatrics floor on a daily basis.  It was there that I met “Nurse Kay”, as her young […]

4th Installment in Series of 5; The Dedicated “Office Nurse”

After finishing my surgical residency at Emory University, I took over a surgical practice from a retiring surgeon in Decatur, Georgia.  His office was in a renovated stone house in downtown Decatur, and he had three employees, all of whom continued working for me for some time. A few years later, two other retiring surgeons […]

2nd Installment in Series of Five; The Country Nurse

I was born in the last month of my father’s medical school training. From there he served a one year internship in Pittsburgh, PA and from that point on he took an offer from a local Lions’ Club in western Pennsylvania, in a county that had no doctors at the time. We initially lived in […]

First of 5 Installments; In Honor of Our Nurses

Florence Nightingale, considered to be the founder of modern nursing, was born on May 12th, 1820, so this year marks the 200th anniversary of her birth. In her honor, World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 to be the “Year of the Nurse”. This designation was made long before COVID-19 was even defined as a […]

The Year of the Nurse; the Day of the Doctor

Florence Nightingale, considered to be the founder of modern nursing, was born in 1820, so this year marks the 200th anniversary of her birth. It was considered an important enough event to commemorate, that the World Health Organization (WHO) has designated 2020 to be the “Year of the Nurse”. This designation was made long before […]

We will be here for you

These are trying times.  Limited resources at the hospital, and concerns about community spread of the virus have forced us to cut back on scheduled office appointments, but we will do our best to be available for your urgent or “time sensitive” surgical needs. In order to balance our hospital based work and office appointments […]