Not prescribing to the nine to five

Gypsy in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma. Black hair, curls, ringlets, wet and crisp. “They steal and scam. Driveway pavement service. They take your money and run.” Gypsy family. Living in trailers. Closed doors. No wonder. Don’t eat at restaurants. Home cooked meals. Gypsy lady with black ringlet curls. Wheels her father in. His hair […]

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Plant Based Soba Stir-fry Noodle Recipe

I was asked by a friend what recipe my husband used to make the dinner pictured above so I decided to share this with you all.  We love to cook our own meals at home and love to help people cook!  This recipe is also vegetarian and perfect for you plant based people out there! […]

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Dear old Doctors, Dear new Doctors

Dear old Doctor that give truckers their speed, Dear new Doctor that give mothers their weed. We need an ear. We need our doctors to listen –Not hear.   Dear old Doctors that stood high in their pulpit, Spouting, pushing words like as if it were the Gita, in Sanskrit. Your days of verbal scripts […]

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On Rotation: A Hundred-Dollar Bill and Old Tissues

On rotations—at the medical examiner.   An eighteen-wheeler was in front. The roads weren’t particularly slick with rain. The eighteen-wheeler wasn’t driving erratically. Mister was following too close. Was his mind occupied with grief because he had just left his old friend’s funeral? Behind his dusty eyeglasses, three years over due for new lenses, were […]

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A rare bird: An Osteopathic Physician in St. Louis

Since opening up Kathmandu Clinic, my personalized private medical clinic, I recently found out that I am one of only a handful of physicians in the St. Louis area that provides Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT). “What is OMT and osteo-whos-it medicine?” I get this question quite frequently! Osteopathic medicine was founded in 1892 in Kirksville, […]

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Practice medicine like a human (not a robot)

Practice medicine like a human, Not like a robot.   Touch people like a human, Robot touch is cold.   Use your eyes to look at the patient, Robot eyes look creepy.   Laugh with your patient, Robot laughter is scary.   Say “I don’t know” when you don’t know. Robots explode when they don’t […]

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Home visits

I wanted to share my first home visit experience. But first… if you have paid attention to the pictures or been in my office, you know that that there is a pretty blue OMM table (people use OMT and OMM interchangeably and sometimes it gets confusing: osteopathic manipulative therapy versus medicine…I am over explaining this because […]

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A New Concierge Practice is Now Open!

Opening up a concierge practice is hard stuff. My physician journey from Jefferson City, MO has lead me to Kirkwood! Ilove living and working in the Kirkwood area. I have now officially opened my new private personalized medical practice. It is of a concierge model, without the retainer! And yes, I am currently accepting new […]

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