The Importance of Breast Cancer Screenings
Everywhere you look during the month of October, one color stands out from the crowd: pink! This month in particular, there are constant reminders, from ribbons to QR codes, to schedule your mammogram. As a result of the many pandemic-mediated shutdowns, both in our community and nationwide, a significant number of patients have delayed their…
Everywhere you look during the month of October, one color stands out from the crowd: pink! This month in particular, there are constant reminders, from ribbons to QR codes, to schedule your mammogram. As a result of the many pandemic-mediated shutdowns, both in our community and nationwide, a significant number of patients have delayed their…
Video: Don’t Let Urinary Incontinence Keep You From Your Life
If you’ve come to our office complaining of urinary leakage, we want you to know that you aren’t alone. Approximately 18 million women are affected by this common condition! Urinary leakage can be caused by an organic cause, such as a medication, or a bladder infection. Sometimes, leakage is caused by urethral mobility, or a…
If you’ve come to our office complaining of urinary leakage, we want you to know that you aren’t alone. Approximately 18 million women are affected by this common condition! Urinary leakage can be caused by an organic cause, such as a medication, or a bladder infection. Sometimes, leakage is caused by urethral mobility, or a…
KevinMD Feature: What does it even mean to work through the unimaginable?
When the Delta variant hit Mississippi, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published alarming statistics for maternal and perinatal deaths. Pregnant women were dying at three times the pre-COVID baseline rate. These young, healthy women would rapidly deteriorate in a matter of days, with three weeks as the average time to death. And those…
When the Delta variant hit Mississippi, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published alarming statistics for maternal and perinatal deaths. Pregnant women were dying at three times the pre-COVID baseline rate. These young, healthy women would rapidly deteriorate in a matter of days, with three weeks as the average time to death. And those…
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Cervical cancer awareness month is in January, so we should all remember to schedule our annual exam with screening pap smears! Everyone over the age of 21 needs to be screened at regular intervals for cervical cancer. At Metro, we do this easily in the office with liquid-based cytology, where we scrape some cells off…
Cervical cancer awareness month is in January, so we should all remember to schedule our annual exam with screening pap smears! Everyone over the age of 21 needs to be screened at regular intervals for cervical cancer. At Metro, we do this easily in the office with liquid-based cytology, where we scrape some cells off…
KevinMD Feature: The letter this physician wants to write to her patients
Before there was doom-scrolling, there were sad books. For me, it was Chapter 18 in Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. The chapter is a fictional portrayal of Mr. Grossman imagining his mother’s last words. The protagonist—modeled on the author—and their two mothers have the same fate at the hands of the Nazis. I tried…
Before there was doom-scrolling, there were sad books. For me, it was Chapter 18 in Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. The chapter is a fictional portrayal of Mr. Grossman imagining his mother’s last words. The protagonist—modeled on the author—and their two mothers have the same fate at the hands of the Nazis. I tried…
Fighting Against Disinformation Regarding COVID-19 Vaccines
Metro Docs Weigh in on What You Need to Know The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy called for a fight against social media disinformation regarding COVID vaccines. Providers are being censured by their accrediting boards for spreading false information. We will diligently provide up-to-date research from prestigious medical journals, well-designed peer-reviewed studies, and from…
Metro Docs Weigh in on What You Need to Know The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy called for a fight against social media disinformation regarding COVID vaccines. Providers are being censured by their accrediting boards for spreading false information. We will diligently provide up-to-date research from prestigious medical journals, well-designed peer-reviewed studies, and from…