Oh, the sneezing and sniffling and runny noses and itchy eyes that are all around us this time of year. And it’s not just your imagination – Knoxville ranks as the fifth worst city in the country for allergy sufferers. That comes as no surprise to the legions of...
Jan, a fifty-something mom, registered some surprise when I listed hepatitis C as one of the things I would test in her bloodwork. “But I’ve never had jaundice or anything that would say I have liver disease. Maybe I’m tired a lot, but who isn’t?” I explained that...
My middle-aged patient was both confused and concerned. “I don’t know what the deal is; I can barely make it the hundred yards to my mailbox and back without huffing and puffing and stopping to rest. And I’ve never been a smoker, so what’s the deal?” As it turned...
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” This was the advice of one of history’s best known physicians, Hippocrates, who lived around the 4th century B.C. He must have had an okay idea of things as he apparently lived to around 90 years old...
Most of us have heard the expression, “Silence is golden.” The poet Thomas Carlyle, observed, “Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed… Silence is golden.” But when it comes to our...
