SURVIVING SCARY SITUATIONS
In the last 100 years, Americans have survived, overcome and ultimately prevailed over any number of societal, natural or health relate disasters, literally in every decade: • Spanish Flu of [...]
“We’ve Only Just Begun”
Long Term Health Effects of COVID-19 The world is most definitely not in the middle of The Carpenter’s famous love ballad, but the title touches on a valid concern. Is this virus only months old [...]
Post Pandemic Reality in Telemedicine
Hurricane Katrina was responsible for the most recent increase in interest in Telehealth, but it took the COVID-19 global pandemic to demonstrate the potential for long term change by reimagining [...]
The Trail to Today’s Telemedicine
The novel coronavirus pushed the world off a figurative cliff earlier this year. Providentially one of the unintended benefits has been the rise of telemedicine (AKA Telehealth). Healthcare [...]
Pandemic & Personal Care
Time to Embrace Your Natural? COVID-19, Quarantine, Safer At Home, Stay At Home, Social Distancing in addition to being new words in our daily vocabulary, have also had the unintended consequence [...]
Coronavirus and the Immune System
Changes as You Age Who gets COVID-19 and why? Why does a 104-year-old man survive his infection, a 25-year-old female athlete training for a 10K become infected and a 52-year-old man dies from [...]
Over and Above the Call of Duty
IN CELEBRATION OF NURSES Who can believe that the World Health Organization (WHO) was being prescient when it proclaimed 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse/Midwife in honor of Florence [...]
National Nurses Week May 6-12, 2020
A Colorful & Patriotic Celebration of American Nursing We all know about Flo; the English nurse considered the founder of modern nursing. In fact, National Nurses Week ends May 12, the [...]
Taking Care of the Care Takers
As America and indeed the world closes its doors and shutters the windows in response to the coronavirus, it is perhaps time to raise awareness to issues beyond the physical. Healthcare [...]
#EVERY STORM RUNS OUT OF RAIN – Maya Angelou
The world finds itself in a pandemic creating confusion, fear, panic, hype, misinformation, questions, and everything in between. A new phrase has entered our common lexicon; ‘Social Distancing’ [...]