November 17, 2024

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Interpersonal EDGE: Burned Out? Here’s a Plan!

Rina Risper06 mins

By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
 
Q. I started out young and idealistic, but I am finding I have had so many disappointments that I just don’t care about much anyone. How do you keep caring about your job when retirement is far away and you are burned out?

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THE KID’S DOCTOR: Study shows warm-up exercises help curb ACL injuries in young athletes

Rina Risper04 mins

We now know that adolescent female soccer players 
experience ACL knee injuries at a rate twice that of their male counterparts. 
 
By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
 
  I have many young patients who are regular soccer players, including many adolescent girls. A recent article in the British Medical Journal caught my eye. The headline: “Simple Warm-Up Program Prevents Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries.” 

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Interpersonal EDGE: Desperation is Mother of Job Breakthroughs

Rina Risper05 mins

By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
 
 Q. Everything I have tried in the last few years professionally seems to have crashed and burned. I am tired, discouraged and out of great ideas. What do you tell your clients who have tried everything and failed?

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Interpersonal EDGE: Job Door Slams Shut? Pry Open Window!

Rina Risper06 mins

By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
 
Q. I’ve been in my field for 25 years, and it is going the way of the dinosaurs. With the economy as it is, there is no way I can afford to retire. Do you have ideas about how to stay employable when your old industry is dying?

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The Kids’s Doctor

Rina Risper06 mins

By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
 
  With winter viruses long gone (goodbye, flu and RSV!), summer viruses that have been lying dormant are once again rearing their ugly heads.
 
  My office has been overflowing lately with feverish kids of all ages. I think the most likely source for much of the illness we’re seeing right now is enteroviral infection.

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Interpersonal EDGE: You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For

Rina Risper05 mins

By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
 
Q. The people I work for are crazy. The decisions they make are consistently irrational, abusive and unpredictable. I’ve been here four years, and my health has gone downhill. Can stress make you sick? And is there anything I can do?

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Interpersonal EDGE: Thrive Despite Career Setbacks

Rina Risper06 mins

By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
 
  Q. I have a friend who is very religious and believes that if you are a member of her religion, nothing bad should happen to you. I have had a string of bad luck in my career this year, and she keeps telling me this is proof God is punishing me. Is God out to get me, or do bad things happen to good people?

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It’s Improv Night!

Rina Risper06 mins

  
By Charissa Patterson-Martinez
 
 
We all have an idea of how we’d like our lives and daily events to flow. 

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The Kid’s Doctor: Children should also have their cholesterol checked

Rina Risper05 mins

By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
 
  I’ve been attending a conference for my continuing education (I still love going to school) and one of the topics was “Universal Cholesterol Screening in Children.” While adults have known the importance of maintaining a healthy cholesterol level for a long time, there’s more and more data available validating the need for children to have their cholesterol monitored.
 

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Interpersonal EDGE: Read Your Boss’s Mind!

Rina Risper05 mins

By Dr. Daneen Skube
Tribune Media Services
 
  Q. What kind of opinion does my boss have of me when anytime I have a conversation with him he either laughs at me or contradicts me?  Consequently, I don’t ask him questions or speak to him unless I really have to. How do I know what he thinks?  

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