Walking Towards the Light Getting up early and walking at sunrise is one of my favorite things to do. I head east and usually start off running. Once I reach a steep hill I start to walk and soak in the first rays of red light for some free red-light therapy. God’s Magnificence! I wishRead more
MyCatholicDoctor Offers Support for High-Risk Pregnancy, Traumatic Delivery and NICU Infants Trinity Sunday, on June 12, 2022, began with blood. Not the blood of the Passion or the Precious Blood of the transubstantiation at Holy Mass. In fact, I did not even make it to Mass that Sunday. Trinity Sunday began with my blood hemorrhagingRead more
The Poop on Abdominal Pain. A day in the pediatric ER never passes without a story like this: A child develops severe abdominal pain, the crying child is rushed to the ER, and I examine the child and pronounce that the patient is full of poop. Yes, constipated. The baffled parents and embarrassed child seemRead more
Helping to Stop Abortion Pills Succeed. When I get a call from a nurse with the Abortion Pill Reversal Network, I know that lives are at stake and the clock is ticking. It is a very emotional time for a woman and I wanted to provide some information about the process from my perspective,Read more
What is Long Covid Care Do the symptoms following your COVID-19 infection have you thinking: could I have long-haul Covid? If any of the symptoms you experienced have lasted longer than six weeks it’s quite possible that the answer is yes. So what really is Long Covid? The Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance providesRead more
Hope for Male Infertility with MyCatholicDoctor The traditional devotion in the Catholic Church for the month of March is St. Joseph. St. Joseph is known as the spouse of the Virgin Mary and foster-father to Jesus Christ. St. Joseph’s feast day is even in March, on March 19. St. Joseph is the patron saint ofRead more
As Catholics, how do we approach sexuality? Natural Family Planning (NFP) is not Catholic contraception or Roman roulette. NFP respects the power of fertility and couples choose to abstain during a time of fertility if wanting to avoid pregnancy using the best medical science at hand. Contraception is an intentional act to destroy the powerRead more
PCOS stands for Polycystic Ovarian syndrome and affects between 5-10% of women of reproductive age. The criteria for diagnosis has some variations but the most commonly used one involves the presence of irregular or absent menstrual periods in combination with excess androgens (male hormones) or evidence of them (male type facial/body hair) and possibly polycysticRead more
Recently, a young woman told me she wanted control over her body and had an IUD implanted by another physician. My thought was that now the IUD had control over her fertility, not her. Despite giving her information that the IUD is an abortifacient and that with charting she would be educated and therefore inRead more
◻️ What are glucose and insulin? ◻️ How do glucose and insulin impact fertility? ◻️ How do we diagnose problems in glucose and insulin metabolism? ◻️ How do we treat these problems? During this webinar, Dr. Mary Davenport discusses how our blood sugar and insulin levels play an integral part when trying to conceive. GetRead more
