Doctor Secrets! My Real Life…

I’ve seen many foot, ankle, and hip injuries in avid runners ranging from sprains to stress fractures. Being a jogger myself I know the biggest pain is not being able to run So I’d like to share my runner secrets that help me to dodge jogger foot, knee and hip injuries: Sprains and stress injuries [...]

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Acne, also known as: zits, pimples, goobers, the widow maker, pizza-face, bachelor’s buddy e.t.c.  is the scourge of teens and twenties fresh on the relationship scene.  Acne couldn’t come at a worst time.  Just when you’d like your complexion to be perfect for that first date, these ugly red spots pop out like stop signs [...]

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I saw a lady this week who came in complaining of jitteriness, fuzzy head, shaking hands, and insomnia.  Turns out she’d missed three days of her SSRI antidepressant Citalopram and was in withdrawal. What most people don’t realize is that to quit an SSRI you need to taper off slowly. Or you might experience some [...]

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At every social event I’ve been to the past 3 months, somehow somebody always brings up the same bleeping conversation – what are the symptoms of swine flu aka H1N1 – and we’re not talking R2D2′s little robot brother here I’ve seen 3 lab confirmed cases. In each case the unlucky swiney was coughing uncontrollably, [...]

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Mall Anxiety Hello World. My first post I want to share a silent ailment, unspoken yet suffered by many. I call it Mall Anxiety - Bram Stoker Dracula Music plays in the background. And it goes like this… Ever had a dream where you were butt naked running around like a fool at some public place to [...]

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