Articles about Primary Care
Most people know what they need to do to get healthier. After all, we are all inundated with messages about the best exercise system or latest diet plan – all which promise to make us feel and look better. However, knowing what changes to make to get healthier and consistently implementing the changes as part […]
“Hey Doc, there’s just one more thing. It’s nothing really, but…” is how many appointments Dr. Stuart Markovitz had with his male patients would end prior to his retiring as a general internist and coming back as a specialist in men’s sexual health. “I called it the ‘doorknob problem’ because it wasn’t until the appointment […]
We all know what a hospital emergency room – an ER – is. It’s the first place you turn to for medical attention when a personal disaster strikes. But what if a catastrophe, natural or man-made – such as a hurricane or a mass shooting – forced all of our hospitals and all of their […]
Shonda Coleman has been suffering from flu-like symptoms for longer than she would like to remember. She has debilitating headaches, severe joint pain, rashes and extreme fatigue that sometimes puts her to sleep for 24 to 36 hours at a time. She has been misdiagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), cancer and a blood disorder. […]
Don’t Panic or You’ll Make the Wait Even Longer The now-imminent physician shortage in this country — a dearth of up to 120,000 in the next 12 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges – seemed to creep up on us like a serial killer spooking for the unsuspecting young college girl in […]
The dog days of summer in the tri-county area can be so energy depleting that even the Palmetto bugs move at a slower pace. Ticks, fleas and mosquitoes? Not so much. If they could talk, we’d hear, “Warmer and wetter is better.” And, as one might expect with bloodthirsty external parasites, it gets worse. The […]