The next time you’re in a doctor’s office…and someone wraps a cuff around your arm to check your blood pressure, you’ll have to thank a nice Jewish doctor named Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch. He called his device a sphygmomanometer,...
After nearly 14 years in operation, we’ve accumulated some statistics … that may be of interest. Health statistics are one, but obviously an imperfect, measure of health care quality. In sharing some of our data, I would point out that physicians practicing...
Here’s a parlor game for psychologists… and the rest of us. Try to pick a popular song that captures the essence of a given type of therapy. Freudian psychotherapy focuses on the effect of your parents on mental health, just like when Loggins and Messina...
Not uncommonly, one member of a couple … will see me in the office with a concern about the sexual aspects of their relationship. Of course many things can go wrong when it comes to sex. We all know about erectile dysfunction since we are bombarded regularly by...