A grain of salt: Seasonal affect for the resistant
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
When the sadness hits, I know it. It’s different from other kinds of sadness; it’s a kind of tender response to the humdrum of everyday …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
When the sadness hits, I know it. It’s different from other kinds of sadness; it’s a kind of tender response to the humdrum of everyday …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Every year, without fail, the new year arrives. With it’s slow, unstoppable force, like blackberry overgrowth, it creeps over us with suffocating thorny truths and …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
It’s that time of year again. We’re obliged to parties and gatherings and second helpings. We’ve got relatives to relate to, colleagues to Secret Santa …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Somehow, perhaps with the transition into the Industrial Revolution and hourly wages, Americans seem to have lost compassion for the unwell. Working hard for long …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
“Do you believe in those IV infusions as a hangover cure?” a family member asked me as he loaded some hotel pancakes onto his plate. …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
A few years ago I added some questions about “support systems” to my patient intake questionnaire. I had been hearing a lot of the same, …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Let’s be clear on some basic facts before we disappoint our readers today: There are nearly zero scientifically-proven health benefits to drinking alcohol.
I know. …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Health Columnist
In my office, the questions of, “Should I eat organic?” or, “Are GMOs bad?” come up almost daily. The answer to both is, yes. …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
I can always tell that I’ll like a patient when they tell me that they’ve spent years with the same doctor. It means they have …
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
We ought to be equal opportunity hormone appreciators. We like them all, primarily because they are responsible for some key body functions — things like …
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