I was talking to Dr. Terrence Glennon, physiatrist with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago at Herrin Hospital the other day and something he said struck a chord in me. So I will repeat it here.
“Don’t go hide in the house if you had a stroke. Who cares if you slur a bit?” Glennon said.
Having played a [...]

My mother was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure at the age of 59. Healthy as a horse all her life, the diagnosis sent her into an instant panic.
It didn’t matter that high BP is a fairly common condition affecting some one in three adults in the U.S. alone. What mattered was that it could [...]

On Tuesday, I spent half a day at the cardiac catheterization lab at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. The team effort I saw there was pretty impressive and drove home the fact that it takes more than a doctor to save a life.
I met some interesting folks at the lab, including registered nurse, Tina Wilson.
Wilson happens [...]

Dr. Otmane Lahlou talks to me about toothbrushes on Sept. 24, 2008.

I was reminded of the frailty of life yesterday.
An email from someone I know announced that Dr. Otmane Lahlou, a general dentist at University Place Dental in Carbondale was no more.
I was shocked. Dr. Lahlou couldn’t have been more than 40 years old.
I met [...]