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Position: La Plata Health Watch
This month and especially this weekend were to have been a time for celebration for our graduates. To the class of 2020, congratulations on the accomplishment of completing your studies! As a...
DATE: May 24, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
We are all struggling with the new challenges of dealing with a coronavirus pandemic. Yet not all are equally impacted. With the focus on a viral infection, it is easy to lose sight of other...
DATE: April 26, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
If you are like me, you are being bombarded with information from every corner about the coronavirus, which is also referred to as COVID-19. I wanted to take the opportunity to summarize some...
DATE: March 29, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
A colleague once shared with me the observation that much of the health-related suffering humans experience originates between the ears. A complete understanding of the various factors influencing...
DATE: Feb. 23, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
It has been said that human beings are creatures of habit. Of course, this applies as equally to bad habits as to good ones. As it turns out, much of our health is dependent upon our habits, and...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
I was recently chatting with an older colleague about how I have had the benefit to work at a time and place where certain vaccine preventable illnesses are not commonplace. I’m a mid-career...
DATE: Dec. 29, 2019 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. So goes the beginning of Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Tale of Two Cities.” From the perspective of our health, much the same could be said of...
DATE: Nov. 30, 2019 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
It is one of the scariest health events and one of the most important to quickly recognize and address. Known to doctors as a myocardial infarction, I’m talking about a heart attack. Each year in...
DATE: Oct. 27, 2019 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
Every child should have the opportunity to strive for their full potential. By now, the back-to-school sales are over, summer sleep schedules are long forgotten, notebooks have begun to fill and...
DATE: Sept. 29, 2019 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
August and the start of the school year has always felt like a time for new beginnings – perhaps more so than New Year’s Day. This time of year finds me reflecting on a child’s success. As a...
DATE: Aug. 25, 2019 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
One of the most common chronic health conditions affecting adults in the United States is Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Risk factors for diabetes include family history of the condition, increased...
DATE: July 28, 2019 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory illness in the United States. It is also a condition for which there is sufficient evidence to support a standardized approach to treatment. For most,...
DATE: June 24, 2019 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
