How Being Truly Heard Can Improve Mental Health

How Being Truly Heard Can Improve Mental Health

Sharing your story, even when it’s painful or difficult, is an important step toward healing. Behavioral and mental health providers listen in ways to encourage that type of healing. Bonnie Moore, senior director of patient care for St. Dominic Hospital Behavioral...
Skip the Meat But Keep the Flavor this Season

Skip the Meat But Keep the Flavor this Season

Every Friday in Lent, Catholics follow the tradition of only eating seafood or otherwise eating meatless meals as a symbolic gesture of abstinence. But whether or not you adhere to this tradition, the practice of limiting your meat consumption—especially red meat—has...
Residents in Action – Graduate Medical Education

Residents in Action – Graduate Medical Education

Across our health system, resident physicians are an important part of the care we provide. What is a Resident? A “resident” has graduated from medical school but is finishing their training in a graduate medical education (GME) program such as those at Our Lady of...
Brent Allain Jr., MD

Brent Allain Jr., MD

After spending much of his childhood hanging around his father’s family medical practice in the small south Louisiana town of Franklin, Brent Allain Jr., MD, knew he was destined for a career in medicine.  “Watching my father’s treatment of patients, as well as his...
Kelly Finan, MD, MSPH, FACS, FASCRS 

Kelly Finan, MD, MSPH, FACS, FASCRS 

Helping people has always come naturally for Kelly Finan, MD, MSPH, FACS, FASCRS, colon and rectal surgeon at Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group Colorectal Surgery, Baton Rouge Colon Rectal Associates, and Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group Colorectal Surgery at...