Stories

As summer winds down, back-to-school prep usually means buying school supplies, picking out new clothes and setting earlier alarms. One of the biggest keys to a good school year often gets overlooked: getting enough real, restful sleep. During summer, it’s easy to fall into a routine of staying up late and staring at screens until…

Picture this: you used to walk through the grocery store without giving it much thought, but lately you find yourself cutting your trip short. Carrying groceries from the car leaves you catching your breath. Taking a basket of laundry upstairs or working in the yard now requires extra breaks. These are tasks you have done…

I spent nearly seven years working in emergency, trauma and cardiac care at University Hospital in Columbia before coming back to Sedalia. That experience gave me a lot of perspective on a common and important question that I know many people wonder about, “Should I go to the walk-in clinic or the emergency room?” Walk-in…

One of the biggest misconceptions about wound care is that time alone will fix the problem. Sometimes it does. Yet sometimes a wound is not improving because something more serious is getting in the way. At Bothwell Wound Healing Center, I help oversee care for patients whose wounds are not healing as expected. In many…

Caring for people at Bothwell Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, I notice the same pattern in the clinic every spring as the weather starts to improve here in the Midwest. More patients are coming in with new foot, ankle and knee pain. Warmer days and longer evenings make it easier to get outside, and many people…

Pain. Everyone experiences it in one way or another. As a family medicine physician, I am invested in improving the quality of my patients’ lives. This desire is what led me to study acupuncture as a way to treat pain without medication. Acupuncture is a treatment that uses steel needles as thin as a human…

I have had the privilege of serving as Chief Medical Officer at Bothwell Regional Health Center for the past 10 years. My medical training includes Internal Medicine as well as Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. For more than 30 years, I have also been closely involved in hospital pharmacy operations, infection prevention, patient safety and…

My day recently started with delivering a baby at Bothwell Hospital at 7 am. Mom and baby did beautifully. Once everyone was settled, I rounded on the postpartum moms and babies in their rooms. I examined each of them and talked with the moms about how they were feeling. After ensuring everyone was stable and…