Many healthcare places have someone assigned to oversee “the patient experience.” Patient experience is the currently acceptable term that we use to describe customer service, because in medicine we aren’t really wild about the concept of our patients being customers. Many people feel like that service term cheapens the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, and […]

I see A LOT of ankle injuries. It hit me yesterday, after having written over 120 blogs so far, that none of them is about ankle injuries. Can you believe that?  Out of all the musculoskeletal trauma that I see in my practice, probably ankle injuries are the most common. They occur in all ages, […]

Questions to ask when looking for a pediatrician, by parents and for parents (Courtesy of the online Dear Dr. Christina community) The last time I chimed in on the topic of how to select a pediatrician was about 8 years ago when I did a video for the Discovery Health Channel, which I don’t think […]