A really depressing article was published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health published a study predicting that if current trends continue, 57% of today's kids will be obese by the time they reach age 35. That is a heartbreaking projection …
Pregnancy Inspiration
Preparing for your visit with the doctor
I'm in the waiting room of the urologist's office. My husband has a kidney stone. He has been putting off seeing the doctor for a week (that's a topic for another day -men - honestly!), so now here we are, on my day off. I am shifting in my chair, restless and irritable, thinking of a dozen things I …
It Matters
A friend asked me this week why I am happy in my job. It must be terrible, he said, to see patients who are carrying babies with abnormalities, when many times I have no treatment to offer them. I didn’t know how to answer at the time, and I have pondered the question since. I could have said …