To accommodate patients who have gone back to work we will be extending our Tuesday hours.
Appointments will be available from 11 am to 7 pm on Tuesdays.
I will also work on October 9th which is a Saturday in Laurel until 1pm (last appointment 12 noon).
We have the rapid covid test for those who need it for air travel.
We are vaccinating all those who are interested, with the new flu vaccine. That includes the regular and the one for seniors.
Also those who need the yellow fever vaccine for international travel can call the office.
Covid vaccines are still available in the office: Moderna and Johnson and Johnson/ Janssen.
Unless you are a cancer patient or otherwise immunocompromised you do NOT need a booster yet.
Remember the sooner you get a booster the sooner you will need the next one!
Spending a lot of time worrying about it and indulging in panic mongering is not necessarily productive. Try to focus on the big picture.
For me right now, one of the major dilemmas is whether I would want to give a young child a mRNA vaccine. I prefer the idea of the tried and true vector technology for the young ones simply because of unknown long term effects of the mRNA. Maybe there are none but still.... this is my personal opinion at this point.
Its hard to drown out the noise of big Pharma and give a balanced look at this issue.
When you get a call from the office suggesting you follow up on labs there is usually a reason. I know these days patients access their labs on line and then look on the internet to see what they mean. Sometimes you can reassure yourself that you are fine.
However, I would like to think that there is added benefit to discussing your labs with me and I can give you the benefit of my over 30 years experience. Perhaps we want to recheck a borderline Blood pressure, we may want to nip something in the bud or determine how we can improve things for the future. Maybe there is new information that is pertinent or new concerns about the medication you are on. Maybe identify future potential problems etc, etc
If coming into the office is a problem, this type of visit can often be done in a telemed visit.
As always I am available for questions and to disseminate information.
Speaking of which, I was in the Munich airport in Germany last weekend and while I was killing time I wandered over to the makeup counter. The topic of covid vaccinations came up and the lady attending me happened to be Russian. She had had the Pfizer vaccine but was very concerned about her 26 year old daughter who had had Lyme disease pericarditis last year. 40 minutes later she had scribbled down notes and asked all her questions, I felt like I was giving a lecture but it occurred to me how badly people need good information. I did manage to impress on her that if her daughter did catch Covid she would likely end up in the ICU.
Something that had not been made clear to her, she was just focusing on the vaccine side effects.
Do you sometimes feel like the wheels are coming off the rails? I hope to write some more about this next time :).
Meanwhile stay well.
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