Articles about Primary Care
You know when you board an airplane and flight attendants go through the safety regulations just before you take off? They remind all the passengers that if oxygen is needed, due to a loss in cabin pressure, the oxygen masks will deploy from the overhead bin and to be sure to obtain oxygen for yourself […]
“Water, water everywhere … nor any drop to drink,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote. The poet could have been thinking of the Lowcountry when he penned those words. That’s just what the situation would be here in the wake of a disaster such as a major hurricane. Even surrounded by rivers and the Atlantic Ocean, without […]
To get the flu shot or not get the flu shot? According to doctors throughout the Lowcountry, the answer is always a resounding yes! This season the entire country suffered through an unprecedented number of flu cases, causing concerns and drawing parallels to the global influenza pandemic in 1918. With so many questions, we decided […]
There are many ways of labeling that trusted physician we all see with just about every little ache or pain we can’t vanquish with time or over-the-counter nostrums – primary doctor; primary care doctor; family doctor. And there are nearly as many sports analogies to describe this multitalented first responder to the ailments and disorders […]
Eating a varied, balanced diet is the first step toward optimal nutrition, but maintaining healthy levels of vitamins and minerals is much easier said than done. Sometimes the scales can be tipped by adding a few key foods into your diet, but, for many people, supplements are a convenient and calculable way to fill the […]
It’s no secret that the population of the Lowcountry is growing; we see evidence of it daily in traffic, in new construction and in the overall cost of living. With an average of 34 people moving to the tri-county area daily and 11 new births each day, our infrastructure is struggling to keep up. The […]