Further research is needed to determine what approaches to promoting wellness are effective.Adrian BanningBettie CoplanMichael T. LeVasseurLippincott Williams & WilkinsThe Journal of Physician Assistant Education
I wish I could say this is the only time I have been disappointed by a physician, but it is not. It is heart-breaking to me that patients are all too often treated with so little respect. Being a physician is without a doubt stressful and difficult, but so too is being a patient. ...
During your third trimester most screenings will test for group B strep that a mother can acquire and then pass down to her baby. It is also important to know your own family history of disease or what your specific ethnicity may be more prone to, i.e. cystic fibrosis or sickle cell ...
Born on a sweltering August day in New York, I arrived as a gift to my mother, resembling her in several ways, including as a fellow Leo. The first six months of my life were uneventful, as I was in good health and met the typical milestones of an infant. However, at the six-mont...
and from an early age, he became a vegetarian, a choice supported by his mother, “the original hippie,” as he called her. His father was another story. When Ashby was just 12, he discovered his father’s body in the family barn with a bullet hole located under his chin in an appa...
Kerr, his mother, and their family dog were walking in a field near their home when the dog fell down the 75-foot-deep shaft. Kerr got a rope and began lowering himself down the shaft to retrieve the small dog. The rope broke when Kerr reached the half-way mark and he fell to the...
I know a childhood sexual abuse victim who was forced — as a child — to apologize to her abuser, by her mother, for saying she didn’t like how the abuser touched her when her mother wasn’t around. Because it upset the abuser. When I was raped at 14 years old, an adult made...
Allison Sowers was new at Neurology Consultants in Davenport, Iowa, or at least new to Spencer. In the past, fame had benefited him with doctors, whether they admired his octagon work or tried to keep up at the gym. There was no such relationship with Sowers, a physician’s assistant who...
ZEINA IBRAHIM, ACTIVIST AND FOUNDER OF PROTECTING LEBANESE WOMEN CAMPAIGN: “For me as a mother, a member of this campaign, and as a part of this community whose laws are unjust towards women and children on a daily basis, International Women’s Day will not be complete and I will no...
Whereas "a tight jaw, shoulders and forehead signal messages of tension and others react accordingly, for anxiety is easily caught", warned Madders, a relaxed person would have the opposite effect: "When a mother is calm the rest of the household simmers down also". The same principle held...