Health education
Plain explanations of the questions patients ask us most. Written and reviewed by our clinical team, in both languages, and deliberately few rather than many.
All topics
Clinic, urgent care, or emergency room?
Choosing wrong costs you either hours in a waiting room or thousands of dollars. Here is the straightforward version.
What an ultrasound can and cannot see
Ultrasound is excellent at some questions and nearly blind to others. Knowing which is which explains a lot about what your provider ordered.
When the medication list gets too long to manage
Nine medications from four prescribers is not unusual. It is also one of the most common causes of a preventable hospital admission.
You have just been told you have type 2 diabetes. What now?
The diagnosis sounds like a verdict. It is closer to a starting point, and the first year matters more than any year after it.
Why your DOT card keeps getting shortened to three months
A three-month card is not a punishment. It is a warning that something treatable is going untreated — and it is one of the easier things to fix.
What an annual physical actually finds
The conditions worth finding early are precisely the ones that feel like nothing at all.