Breast Health In The Time Of COVID-19: Volume 4

In this volume, I am completing my list of 19 steps to improve your breast health, during this COVID-19 pandemic. The first volume was about mammograms. In the second volume, I touched on alcohol, smoking, weight gain, hormones, sleep, and pregnancy.…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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”.…

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…