Our kids are depressed! For two years, all they have seen is masked faces. They have been on lockdown in their homes. School is virtual. The only social interaction is via blue screens. The human psyche was not made for this. “I’ve been practicing pediatrics for 32
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Lately it seems as if going to a doctor, PPO or specialist, one of the most deeply personal activities you can perform, has become extremely impersonal. You are treated like a number when you check in. You sit in the waiting room for 30 minutes. Then when
Read more →I love the holidays. The sights, the sounds, the flavors, the traditions. All of us are wanting the Norman Rockwell illustration of the happy family with the table bursting with delicious holiday fare. When I was a little girl, my mother would take us Christmas shopping at
Read more →Adrenal dysfunction is not widely recognized in the medical field. In fact, I have heard MDs say that this is not a real syndrome. There is a blood test that will check the ACTH hormone in the blood, but I can’t say that I have ever seen
Read more →Many women suffer from sub-clinical thyroid dysfunction. I say ‘sub-clinical’ because their blood work shows that their thyroid panel is in the appropriate reference range. The appropriate range is a bell curve. This is what is normal for most people. We are not ‘most people’. We are
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