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Cold Feet

Many of you are familiar with the horror I describe in this week’s post.  If not, let me set the ...

Dried Beans - the Humble “Super Food”

Beans deserve a bigger place in our diets. Many countries have a high intake of beans. In eastern and southern Africa ...

It’s Never Too Late to Quit

I recently had a 65-year-old patient look at me incredulously as I suggested that he should quit smoking.  “I’ve been ...

Maximum Heart Rate

Exercise to the MAX As I wrote in my blog post from last week I have some patients who are absolute ...

Want Help To Kick The Habit? It’ll Cost You

No surprise here, smoking is very expensive and hard to quit If you were to spend the next twenty years smoking ...

Heart and Vascular Health Fair Quiz

The annual Alegent Heart and Vascular Health Fair is coming up soon. On Saturday, February 18, from 7 to 11 ...

Condition Guarded

“What’s his condition? Is it serious, or critical, or what?” I got this question last week from the family member of ...

Delivering Bad News

No one likes giving bad news, even those with practice like doctors I read an interesting article in the Omaha World-Herald ...

2011 Year End Summary

This week marks the 3rd year in a row that I’ve published a new post every week without missing as ...

Guinea Pigs

My seven-year-old daughter loves animals of all kinds. She loves snakes, spiders, bugs, birds—everything.  Her favorite are rodents of all ...