Let’s talk about sugar! How many teaspoons of sugar do you think you consume each day? How many teaspoons SHOULD you consume? Checking this one thing on food labels made me realize just how much sugar I was consuming. When I share this with others, they are often shocked to know just how much sugar […]

Well…after five and a half years of working in Meridian, Mississippi, I had my last clinic day yesterday. It was sad for me, very sad for my nurse, and very, very sad for some of our patients whom we’ve been taking care of for the entire time. These sorts of transitions are always extremely difficult […]

I was doing my rounds one morning, on a patient being treated with a  6 weeks course of antibiotics for a bone infection.  After talking with him a bit, I then started to examine him by first asking him to open his mouth for me to inspect it. He asked “why do you always ask […]

This is a good case describing how disastrous a ‘simple’ infection can be, when there is foreign/implanted material in they body. Doing hospital rounds one day I approached an elderly woman’s room and could hear her groaning long before I got to the door. This was a patient that was being treated for a bacterial […]