Ever wondered why the doctors always tell you not to pop your pimples? I mean, it’s just a little bump, right?! And you’ve popped them your whole life and nothing bad ever happened! Well nothing ever happened to you, at least nothing more than a prominent scar or a dark mark that took a longer […]
Your heartburn medicine may be increasing your risk for infection
Do you really really need that ‘heart burn’ medicine you’ve been taking religiously every day for months, or maybe even years? It is no secret that we live in a highly medicated society with many people taking in excess of 20 and sometimes even 30 different medications (I’ve counted!). Often, medicines get added one by […]
Bogus allergies
As an infectious diseases specialist, the type medication that I prescribe most often is antibiotics. Unfortunately, of all the medications that patients report allergies to, antibiotics in general seem to be the most common, but participularly penicillin and penicillin related types. However, less than 10% of people have antibiotic allergies and of these, only about […]
The case of a pregnant woman who succumbed to influenza
The death of a pregnant woman is something dreaded in medicine. Well…loosing any patient is tough, but loosing a pregnant woman is particularly heart breaking, because among other things, you think – this woman never got to see her precious baby, and the baby never got to know it’s mother. The only time I can […]