To Boost (again) or Not to Boost. For bottom-liners, punch-line-first kinds of people, the short answer about whether or not to get the BA.4 BA.5 vaccine is: YES. WHY: Three reasons: Immunity from prior vaccines wanes after several months. The virus changes repeatedly. And having CoVID sucks. IS IT SAFE? We have many pieces of information that give us a lot of confidence in the safety of these vaccines, including that hundreds of millions of doses of mRNA vaccines have

Dear Patients, This is weird. It is after Labor Day, and I am NOT depressed. Let me back up. In years past, I would spend the cold, dark winter days counting down to Memorial Day. Then, I would savor every second of summer; no school, long days, and family time — LOADS of family time. I was ecstatic, joyful, and at peace ALL summer. Then, like clockwork, EVERY Labor Day evening, my mood would shift and I would become dark, irritable, and even tearful. So this past post

One of my goals in my 50th year is to do something “different” with my 25 years of experience as a doctor. So...I am starting a podcast! One of the things I hear over and over from patients is that we (their doctors and health care professionals) don’t listen. It is a problem that contributes to poor health care outcomes in immeasurable ways. Patients TRY to talk and are met with doctors glazing over, staring at a computer screen, or who have one hand on the doorknob. So..the