Primary Care

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 […]

The Scoop on Salt: Is it Time to Table the Habit? The next time you reach for the salt shaker, pause to ask yourself, “Does this dish really need the extra salt?” The answer is most likely “no.” Alexis Appel, a registered dietician and nutritionist with Roper St. Francis Healthcare, said most Americans consume too […]