Dear Doctors: I have seen my doctor and gynecologist for pain in my groin area that gets worse when I'm sitting or if I squat. It worsens at the end of the day. I'm told it could be pudendal neuralgia. I've never heard of that. Can you please explain what that is?
During the 1970s and '80s, the flocks gathered in conservative Protestant pews kept growing and growing — until a third of the U.S. population could be defined as 'evangelical.'
As a professor, I'm fortunate to teach a course called World Religions for Healthcare Professionals that prepares students for the spiritual and ethical issues they may encounter in their careers. But the class often boils down to life's big questions: What makes life worth living, and how should we live? How do you find your 'calling'?
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Gone are the days when kids were free to roam town and the only concern was if they were home in time for dinner. People of a certain age remember riding their bikes across town to meet up with friends or go to a store for a pop.
DEAR HARRIETTE: There is a new girl at work, and although I have been nothing but friendly and helpful to her, she has this annoying habit of talking to me as if I'm the newbie in the office. Sometimes she even goes to the extent of explaining things that I already know like the back of my hand. I'm very good at my job, and I've been promoted several times since I started working here nearly four years ago. I need to have a serious talk with her about why she feels the need to explain things to me. How should I approach her about this? — You're the Newbie DEAR YOU'RE THE NEWBIE:
Dear Doctors: I am 65 years old, and I have never been to a cardiologist.
Oklahoma Human Services (OHS) recently announced the availability of food insecurity grants to provide access to affordable and nutritious foods to Oklahomans in areas negatively and/or disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Being something of a smart aleck, I've sometimes joked that while I may look white, actually I'm Irish. All eight of my great-grandparents were born there. Indeed, there was a time during the Great Potato Famine of 1845-52 when my ancestors endured conditions similar to Black enslaved people in America. Millions of Irish peasants starved even as the country exported plentiful foodstuffs guarded by British soldiers. Had they been enslaved, they might have been fed.
DEAR HARRIETTE: I have always been an outsider, and not by choice.