When should I be concerned about my moles? How dangerous are they? Recently I had a number of teenagers come to the office for their yearly physicals. They had been put on hold because of the Covid pandemic, and now that there was optimism about high school sports opening up after the new year […]
Read More →A teenage patient recently came to the office because of abdominal pain. It all started a couple of weeks before. She had never had stomach issues prior to that. It started as a dull, aching pain in the middle of her abdomen,not sharp nor did it radiate to other parts of her body. She […]
Read More →Ten-year-old Brett was brought to the office with a chief complaint of “headache”. Naturally this perked my interest.This could mean so many different things. When I entered the room he was sitting with mom and looked to be very healthy. I asked him how his summer had been, how he was faring with the […]
Read More →What could cause this pain in her arm? She didn’t fall or bump it. But she won’t move it. The office was just about to close when the phone rang and a frantic mom was calling about her 2 ½-year-old daughter who had injured her arm. She wanted to know if she should dare […]
Read More →Small amount of protein in one’s urine does not necessarily give a call for alarm. Brett was coming in for his high school physical.Because of the covid-19 (coronavirus)shutdownboth parents were able to come with him. He was going to be a junior in the fall and was hoping to get a lot of playing […]
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