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During the recent pandemic, many families revisited the idea of home-cooked meals together around the family dinner table. More family members were home, and life seemed to slow down somewhat. Unfortunately, the lure of fast-food establishments and readily available pre-packaged, ultra-processed convenience foods easily overrode those good intentions as soon as hectic lifestyles resumed. According … Read more
Although his official position is security/customer service with Prisma Health in Greenville, Harold Moore spends seven to eight hours every day in front of a computer screen summarizing reports, creating spreadsheets and bar graphs for internal use and submitting daily work orders. And every day he wonders when he is going to need new glasses. … Read more
When Janelle Mitchell enters the room of one of her adolescent patients who was recently diagnosed with cancer, she doesn’t bring a stethoscope or bandages. Instead, she might be carrying a guitar or the lyrics to the patient’s favorite song. Mitchell is a music therapist at Prisma Health. “Music therapy is not just playing or … Read more
The next time your pet has a medical emergency, you might wonder if your efforts to get it to a 24-hour vet reaches a dead end – or requires some unexpected extra work. The number of veterinarians is at an all-time low – and if it doesn’t shows signs of recovery in the next few … Read more
So many of us have been there – young adults trying to find our place in the world, dealing with a variety of different mental health challenges and feeling alone. Luke Shirley, founder and director of the nonprofit Quest in Recovery, has walked this walk, too. And he knew there had to be way to … Read more
In early October 2022, Columbia resident Julianna Fisher jumped into an emergency responder vehicle with a seasoned paramedic and rushed off on her first medical call. Fisher had been on the job only a week as a brand-new emergency medical technician, but now she was speeding across Richland County with a siren wailing overhead – … Read more