What is plastic surgery all about? Dr. Bosshardt’s new book spills the secrets. Richard T. Bosshardt, MD, FACS, of Bosshardt & Marzek Plastic Surgery Associates in Tavares, published [...]

After losing weight equivalent to a whole other person, Danielle Santiago feels called to help others do the same. After decades of struggling with her weight, which topped [...]

The doctor cannot see you now. My wife’s primary care provider (PCP) recently retired. In March, she was having some issues and tried to get in to see [...]

COVID-19 fatigue is real. No, I don’t mean the profound fatigue when you are acutely ill with COVID, or even the lingering fatigue that can persist for weeks or months [...]

A Tampa Bay area doctor celebrated National Donate Life Month in April with the gift of his own bone marrow to help a child in need. Ali Alsamarah, MD, [...]

HCA Florida Ocala Hospital and HCA Florida West Marion Hospital received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit upholding the standard of patient safety in hospitals and [...]

For nearly four years, Ruben has served as a nurse on the hospital’s clinical decision unit (CDU), where he provides compassionate and comprehensive care to patients who arrive through [...]

“Trust is the most important determinant of whether we survive the next century.” Attributed to Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize-winning economist One can argue what was the most damaging [...]

With calming yoga meditation music playing in the background, Missy Minner spends several days a week stretching her arms to the heavens, bending her ankles and feet, and twisting [...]

Is it better to use anti-bacterial soap? This is a question that never seems to stay answered.  The idea that anti-bacterial soaps are somehow better than regular soap is based [...]

In February/March 2022, frontline physicians faced with a crush of sick patients with a novel virus of unknown lethality from Wuhan, China scrambled to find ways to treat them. [...]

Exercise benefits a body whether you’re 19 or 99 "It’s never too late” is a common cliché, but it isn’t quite true. Especially when it comes to exercise.  [...]

I wrote what follows in April 2020, five weeks into the lockdowns.  Only the parts in italics were written now. I see a world I no longer [...]

The best biopsy for melanoma Save your skin and possibly your life.  Skin cancers are the most common cancers, and even though only about 1% of skin [...]

The truth about COVID-19 and where we go from here. Trying to make sense of COVID-19 can be frustrating because it is a moving target. The COVID of [...]