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Tips on Making a Living Will Because Peace of Mind is Planning Ahead
Consider it like a jar up on the shelf. It’s filled with all your important handwritten notes and instructions and thoughts. You’ve stored it away for later, for when...
Easter is About More than the Bunny
Egg hunts and other spring events are back on the calendar this year as the omicron variant has receded and COVID-19 infection rates remain low. Make the most of this...
Eating Well During Pregnancy
Should you eat for two when you’re expecting a bundle of joy? Not quite, says Carmen Alexis Miller, MS, RDN, LDN, outpatient dietitian at Our Lady of Lourdes...
Understanding Autism in Children
Brain development begins during gestation and continues throughout childhood and beyond. For children with autism, something happens with brain development between...
What Parents Need to Know About Scoliosis
Children’s spines grow as they do, and while the spine is naturally curved from front to back, some children will develop a sideways curve, a condition known as...
Eating Well with Gestational Diabetes
Part of any pregnancy journey is the “orange drink test,” or a screening for gestational diabetes. This regular part of prenatal care usually happens sometime between...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Nathan Hite, MD
Board Certified colorectal surgeon Nathan Phillip Hite, MD, is a lifelong Louisiana resident. Well, almost. “I like to say that I was born and raised in south...