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Growing up in Thomasville, North Carolina, during the Great Depression, Lewis Clark Jr., recalled his first experience with food serving sizes. “There were six of us in the family, and at dinner we would pass a bowl of potatoes, a bowl of vegetables and a plate of meat, if we had meat – and everyone … Read more
It was an atypical day from the beginning. For one thing, Pete Bazzle and his wife, Penny, usually do everything together — but that day, Pete had a doctor’s appointment in Walterboro, while Penny was heading to lunch with her cousin in Summerville. After his doctor’s visit concluded, Pete was driving home and got as … Read more
If someone calls you a “fat cat,” you probably know what that means – and it’s generally not good. You’re probably being told that you’ve been successful but more through greed, selfishness and even corruption than through fairness or sweet charity. That’s bad enough. But if someone calls your own favorite feline a “fat cat,” … Read more
It’s no secret that technology is racing ahead of us, with new innovations seemingly emerging daily. Applications for the health care industry are particularly exciting. Whether improving early diagnoses, reducing the risk of infection, permitting more precise surgeries or decreasing hospital stays and recovery times, these new innovations benefit the patients using them and the … Read more
I was 22 the first time I experienced a panic attack. It was September of 2001, several weeks after the attack on the Twin Towers. I lived across the river from Manhattan in Northern New Jersey and lost a friend when the Towers fell. I awoke in the middle of the night gasping for air. … Read more
“I don’t use the word miraculous lightly in medicine, but I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Richard L. Bowen, M.D., of Charleston Ketamine Center. He has now been administering ketamine infusions for eight years, having given over 10,000 infusions to more than 1,000 patients. Ketamine is proving to be reliable for helping patients when … Read more