I recently received a heart-breaking letter from a woman with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (POCS). The classic signs are hirsuitism (hairy face and body), but male pattern baldness, acne, irregular menstrual cycles, and sometimes infertility can also present.
“Before I found out I had PCOS I felt so alone and depressed,” says the Waynesboro correspondent. “I […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 25th, 2006 at 12:05 pm and is filed under Weight, Women's Issues, Hormones Endocrine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I tell my patients that Im naturally blond with blue eyes. I just color my hair black and put on brown contact lenses so I dont look like an albino Korean-American man. Why does it seem to me everyone in Hollywood wants to be blue-eyed and blond?
Eyes are supposed to be the window to […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 18th, 2006 at 12:13 pm and is filed under Eyes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Where do myths and misconceptions come from? Some people swear that eating white raisins soaked in gin relieves arthritis pains. (Gin should be a card game, not a drink. Yuck!) Some people tie a dirty sock around their necks to fight off colds. (My luck, I would get athletes foot on my neck.)
Many people […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 11th, 2006 at 12:21 pm and is filed under Health & Wellness, Injuries. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I just went to a wedding, and the maid-of-honor gave some good advice to the new groom. “Henry,” she said, “all of you have to do to remember your anniversary date is forget it once.
“When a man and woman get married,” she continued, “he thinks, ‘I hope she never changes.’ She thinks, ‘I can’t […]

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at 12:39 pm and is filed under Psych, Office Visits, Patient Behavior, Abuse. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.