Alexis Hugelmeyer
Dr. Mom
Blame it on menopause — because you can.
This week, I hosted Christmas Eve for 10 of my family members. Only six out of seven fishes made it to the table...
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Is gluten the cause of what ails you?
Most of the time, patients don't come to my office at the first sign of a problem. When someone has a medical complaint, typically...
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Gastrointestinal distress? You’re not alone
Did you ever have a day where you leave the house and your clothes fit just fine but by the end of the day...
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The health benefits of going green
I have been promising my niece Samantha that I would come up to her school, Marist College, and lecture to her pre-med fraternity on...
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Coping with too much information
There’s a condition known as Medical Student Syndrome which applies not only to medical students but to all healthcare professionals. We know too much....
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Dirty kids are healthy kids
At the Sound to Bay 5/10K in Jamesport last week, a few other docs and I hosted a health fair table on behalf...
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Why treating a throat cancer survivor for dry mouth changed everything
As a young medical student on third-year rotations, I would often call my dad to run cases past him. He would always say, “if...
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Om-School: Learning by living
Om is the sound of life, the infinite vibration that echoes through the Universe and perpetuates life. Om is the continuum that begins before...
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Tough talking to your teen? The doctor can help
We are losing our teenagers. We are losing them to drugs and alcohol, cigarette smoking, sexually transmitted diseases, motor vehicle accidents, suicide, homicide,...
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A physician struggles with loss
“No one, but no one, is exempt from human suffering,” she said. The infinite words of wisdom, spoken by a woman who had seen...
