When Las Vegan Rick Tope showed me a bottle of Canker Cure pills he advertises as preventing and healing painful canker sores in the mouth – I noted some ingredients had been crossed out with a black pen.
“I have better ingredients now,” he said. “I don’t want to tell you for proprietary reasons
there’s amino acids, too.”
Paul Harasim
The more you learn about Anna Wroble as a mother and as a registered nurse, the more it seems natural that she be the one to change how thousands of expectant and new parents gain information about childbirth and caring for newborns.
The Wesley Warren of today does not act like the somber Wesley Warren of last fall. Rather than on the edge of tears, the Las Vegas man suffering from a disease that has left him with a 100-pound scrotum is seemingly enjoying his celebrity.
Somehow it always comes as a surprise – a doctor or his loved ones getting sick. Oh, sure, when I think about it rationally, I know physicians and their families are prone to the same illnesses and bad luck as the rest of us mortals.
But I’m not always rational when it comes to my health or that of my family.
When Tom Thomason took the fifth, he was in a Sunrise Hospital operating room, not a courtroom.
Still, there was a question he couldn’t answer as he went under the knife.
Could Dr. Troy Watson pull off a successful ankle replacement surgery on his fifth try?
Even after 30 years as a physician – Dr. Marietta Nelson now runs The Eye Clinic of Las Vegas – she finds the doctor-patient relationship awe-inspiring.
Never, she says, can she take lightly that someone entrusts his own or his child’s well-being to her.
Las Vegas police officer Tony McCleery hurts.
You would, too, if a pickup plowed into you as you stood on Las Vegas Boulevard.
If you’re looking for a sign of the UC San Diego Health System Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas, you’ll have about as much luck as you would have looking for a sign of Bigfoot.
And that’s just the way new CEO Mickey Goldman wants it – for now.
This will be the first Mother’s Day without my first health care provider. Alzheimer’s took her out in January.
The patient-provider relationship was always excellent: Mom always found a way to give her patients, or rather her children, the attention they deserved.
Every time I hear sports talk show host Paul Howard selling LASIK eye surgery – it only took him a few painless minutes to acquire 20-15 vision – I think of a woman I wrote about in Texas who lost her sight from a laser procedure. Her emotional appeal to me to let people know that such surgery is not without risk has stayed with me.
Outside Henry Chanin’s office at The Meadows School is the golf cart he must use to move around campus.
It is a reminder of one way the hepatitis C he acquired in 2006 during a colonoscopy at Dr. Dipak Desai’s Desert Shadow Endoscopy Center has changed his life.