With the first snow in Mammoth and Tahoe last week the injuries
from snowboarding started to trickle in. Primary Care Doctors and
Orthopedic surgeons know you love it, and we don’t want you to stop
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1. 'Tis the Season(al) Affective Disorder: Why Am I
a Scrooge over the holidays? Mood is worse over the holidays.
Recognize there is great debate here about whether the
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Hair loss is a cause of anxiety and distress in both men and women.
Until now, there haven’t been great treatments for hair loss in
women (androgenic alopecia.) Men have been successfully using
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For physicians and patients the 2012 presidential election
profoundly influenced the future of our healthcare system.
Controlling healthcare costs and thus controlling our debt is
important to us as
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Stress: “I hate my job,” “I work under someone who is awful to me,”
“I have the worst hours-- I don’t get home until 9 PM.” As a
primary care doctor, one of the biggest surprises to
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You don’t remember banging in to anything and you see bruises on
your legs and arms. Why am I bruising and do I have to worry? I see
this all the time. Easy bruising is a common complaint for
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For young to middle aged adults the moderate use of alcohol
increases the risk of the most common causes of death (such as
trauma and breast cancer.) Men under the age of 45 may also
experience more
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Alcohol use is a difficult paradox for physicians. You can use it
safely, and it may improve health, but heavy alcohol results in
catastrophic complications wreaking havoc on people’s lives. As you
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This is the month
where we team up to encourage folks to report abuse, request
arrests and seek support. To get you fired up here are 10 things
you
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1.
It’s complicated: The bladder has two functions that are
totally opposite of the other. One is to relax and stretch out so
it can store urine (and fill like a balloon,) and the other is
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A Swedish medical team has transplanted uteruses from two women in
their 50s to their daughters. In the United States there is a group
in Indiana actively recruiting women interested in undergoing
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