September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide rates in the United States increased more than 30% from 1999 to 2017. More than half (54%) of people who died by suicide did not...
So, I was minding my business doing school work at home last Monday, when I looked at my phone and noticed a message on Facebook messenger from a random gentleman that I had never heard of before. He introduced himself as Dr. Wilson Lam, a member of a group of doctors...
Being in medicine requires practitioners to be more than a clinician but also an advocate, coordinator, counselor, information resource and supporter for patients. As physicians we are in an unique position to understand and treat the protean manifestations of...
Last year a Texas based physician came under fire after he was quoted in a medical journal stating female physicians earn less because we do not “work as hard”. A repost on the Facebook group Physician Mom’s Group, an online community of over 70,000...
My name is Uchenna Umeh, fondly called Dr. Lulu by my patients. I am a pediatrician and a mom of two teens and one young adult. I like to think of myself as a Momatrician because I have been blessed with not only my own biological children, but I have also been...
On January 23rd 2018, a 15-year-old student shot sixteen people at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, killing two other 15-year-olds. Majority of the victims were between the ages of 14 and 18 years old. Thirty-two miles north from Benton, a 1997 school...
