MY DAILY MEDICINE

During the pandemic Stay-at-Home Order, families with little kids are discovering creative ideas for homeschooling. The networks happily s...

Back in 2008, I blogged about this beautiful young lady who was entering middle school and couldn't read. Seriously! Kind of tossed as...

Meet my New Cousin! Well, wouldn't you know it?  Of all the so-called celebrities on 23andMe , I end up sharing my genetic haplog...

Say what?! (sample) From the time I was born  61 years ago, until I was a teenager, my entire identity was that of an American, albeit...

When I was a little girl, this black and white rotary wall phone  (# Main 3-0060), hung on my Grandma Golden's kitchen wall. Edith ( ...

When I was 12 years-old, back in the day, taking the bus with your best friend downtown to the Woolworths on 16th Street was a major event f...

  When my kids were babies, I carried them around in a Snuggly. I loved it because when the baby was sleeping, the side of his face would be...

Sometime during last month, around Christmas & Chanukah, I began asking myself some crazy questions: 1. Why is there so much arrogance...

The afternoon has arrived when I have my grandson all to myself.  I am in a state of grandma euphoric bliss.  Mommy is at work. Daddy is nap...

It's been 13 years since my best friend, Robin, found her birth family when she was 48. She tells me repeatedly - even this morning- th...

A few weeks ago as I was hurrying to leave for work, I opened the front door, took one step outside and saw a beautiful butterfly in my path...

Babies like pacifiers, toddlers love their blankies, and Willis, well, he loves his orange. It's a family joke. As soon as we all sit d...

My grandpa told me. My mother drummed it into me. And now holistic nutritionist Gillian McKeith from BBC America is stalking British fatso...

Move over Oprah & Dr. Phil. I've had it with your anx. You no longer have priority status on my Tivo. I need peace, love, and happin...

Time Magazine recently reported in their 6/23/08 issue, p.67, "In the 1950's kids had three cups of milk for every cup of soda. To...

A professional songwriter friend of mine and I launch a volunteer after school mentoring program and Blossom is referred to us by social ser...

I'm tantalized by Planet China. Ever since my university independent study on the Sino-Soviet conflict, Mao Tse-tung, and the Cultural R...

Since our State Board of Pharmacy recently published an on-line prescription history database for doctors, we've verified that some of o...

My mother calls me. Her dearest friend, 93-year old Miss Bessie, wants to know if I will look at her bills from the rehab facility she staye...

Charles wasn't really his last name, but Ray was really his first name and he had been a patient in this practice for 25 years. I only ...

I'm experiencing the reality of something I read in a Time magazine article a long time ago. Something in the article was so profound t...

Last summer, my then 94-year old father-in-law was gallivanting around Europe with one of his sons. He had always wanted to visit the towns ...

National Public Radio (NPR) is featuring a series on health care systems around the world. Today's segment, which I listen to as I driv...

Two word: Medical Bills. There's nothing like coming home from the hospital and finding a fistful of medical bills waiting for you. From...

Today our R.N., who cares for all our patients as if they're her own family members, reached into her purse and handed me her personal V...

We see primarily Medicare and Medicaid patients in our private medical clinic....mostly the patients the other doctors don't want to see...