May 4, 2022 | Ask the Doctor
A patient came to see me for chronic fatigue, weight gain, and hair loss. For years her PCP and OBGYN have been treating her without any success. Her bloodwork was always normal so she began to wonder if she was just depressed. I saw her and noticed that her thyroid...
Apr 5, 2022 | Ask the Doctor
I play a lot of tennis and a common phrase I hear from a lot of them both young and old is they love the game but they can’t play as often as before because if they play more than 2 times a week their arthritis in the knees, elbows, and hips are so bad they are in...
Mar 3, 2022 | Ask the Doctor
Every day I have patients ask me this one question, “Should I take this drug for let’s say my cholesterol, osteoporosis, or breast cancer?”. Just name the drug and the disease it would be used to treat, and they all want to know if that drug will help them. I confess,...
Feb 1, 2022 | Ask the Doctor
Lab testing is a great medical tool that doctors use multiple times a day. Patients come in saying my labs show this or that and ask if I can fix them as the doctor. First of all, not all labs tell us what is actually going on. For example, I had a patient who went...
Jan 7, 2022 | Ask the Doctor
King Solomon in the bible wrote in Ecclesiastes there is nothing new under the sun. Maybe that is why since I was in my residency training I loved reading about doctors and their practice of medicine hundreds of years ago. I have been doing more and more research on...
Nov 6, 2021 | Ask the Doctor
We have all worked hard this summer and fall to lose the weight we gained over last winter and now it is that time of year that we are going to blow it by gaining it all back starting with Halloween progressing to Thanksgiving and then all the December parties, all...
Oct 2, 2021 | Ask the Doctor
Every practice has a handful of patients that are hard to figure out what is going on with them. Their problems are many and it seems as if everything you do fails and makes them worse. It is this way at our practice with a couple of patients that seems as though they...
Sep 1, 2021 | Ask the Doctor
I have been getting more and more patients coming in that complain of just being “down.” Simply put, feeling depressed. So, instead of reaching for my prescription pad to put a patient on the latest anti-depressant drug I have found myself ordering some specific labs;...
Aug 4, 2021 | Ask the Doctor
It is summer, which means great time for the beach, outdoor games, and working in the yard. This is the time of year my patients really build up their vitamin D levels. It is the sunlight that makes vitamin D in our cells. The vitamin that is not a vitamin at all but...
Jun 29, 2021 | Ask the Doctor
We seem to be coming out of our COVID lockdown and people are venturing out and doing more traveling, shopping, etc. You would think that people would be really excited but as I am listening to the news I hear story after story of people going crazy at the McDonalds...
