Linda Burke-Galloway

There are some patients that keep you humbled. Barbara Tate was one of those patients. With a shopping list of chronic conditions a mile long, she was told she could never carry a baby because she had miscarried two during her early 20s. She suffered the hammer blows of diabetes, high blood pressure...
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Although Kathryn Stocketts novel, The Help, had been a New York Times bestseller for months, somehow it had escaped me. However after hearing all the buzz about the movie, I was determined to see it even if I had to go by myself which ultimately happened. Set in rural Mississippi during the turbulen...
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Did you hear about the 17 year old teen that posed as a physician assistant at a Florida hospital for five days and got away with it Are you surprised Im not. It seems that Matthew Scheidt, had a summer job working part-time for a surgical supply company. He allegedly went to the Human Resources ......
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There was no large fanfare but there should have been as a result of the Institute of Medicines IOM recent recommendations that require new health insurance plans to provide preventive services at no cost to the patient. Thats right. No cost. Oh, how women needed this victory in the midst of these t...
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At some point during a pregnancy, the topic of labor induction might emerge. Inducing labor means that contractions are being started before a patient begins labor naturally or without any external influence. Elective inductions of labor has doubled in the past 20 years according to medical literatu...
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