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When she was young, Deborah Ahrendt didn’t plan on becoming a physician. Her plan was to finish college, and then possibly travel around Europe for a while.
If you’re leaving residency and seeking your first job as a physician, there are many things you’re probably looking for: a practice or hospital with a solid reputation…
Around 92,147 people live in San Angelo, Texas. Seventeen percent of them live below the poverty line.1 And many of those who live below the poverty line…
John M. Haley is determined to find out which varmint is eating the chickens he raises in his backyard. His flock of Rhode Island Reds, Americanas, and Plymouth Rocks has…
Most of us don’t give much thought to insurance after the initial research and purchase. Once you buy a long-term disability policy, you’re good to go, right?
When Dr. Lenore DePagter first moved to San Marcos, Texas, she didn’t know much about the local medical society. But after calling around to find out where and when they met…
Pagers have been a part of the quintessential physician uniform, along with a white lab coat and a stethoscope, for decades. But today, physicians who still use a pager may be in…
Dr. Joseph Agris knows what it’s like when it’s 120 degrees in the Swat Valley, the area on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he recently spent a month.
Being a young physician these days has its challenges. But Daniel Davis and his wife, Julie Dang, have almost cleared one tall hurdle: in June, they will both finish their residencies…
On January 9, 2009, Dr. Craig Rogers, a surgeon at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, performed a robotic procedure to remove a cancerous tumor from the kidney of a 60-year-old patient…
It’s not every day that a physician gets to hang out with Olympic athletes. But during the Beijing Summer Olympics, that’s just what Dr. Mark Chassay did.
"My brother asked me to go on a short-term medical mission," he recalls. "I had always enjoyed canoeing, camping, backpacking — so I saw it as an adventure. I signed up on a lark."
After surviving 11 hurricanes, fate finally caught up with Dr. Asa Lockhart's boat, the GCCeas. In September of 2009, Hurricane Ike roared through Galveston Bay coming ashore in Seabrook…
Former TMAIT Board Chairman, Dr. Ronald Pinkenburg, or "Dr. Pink" as he's often known, can't put his finger on the connection between his chosen career as an ophthalmologist and his…
Dr. Doug Curran, a family physician with Lakeland Medical Associates in Athens, delivers the babies of the same women he delivered when they were babies 30 years ago…
The stresses on medical residents are well known — long hours and impending debt, to name just one or two. But another issue that you don't hear about as often weighs on the minds…
It was 1990, and Dr. Charlotte Smith, a board-certified Neuro-Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury specialist based in Austin, had what many aspire to: her own practice in a traditional…
For most people, that answer is usually "I don't know" followed by "I think my employer has something." But the high risks inherent in the medical profession, and the higher financial…
