Vitamin D and COVID-19
Vitamin D has many benefits for our health: from helping to build strong bones to helping with mood -- and even helping with our immune response. There is not enough high quality evidence to say if vitamin D can actually help prevent COVID-19, or make it less severe,...
COVID-19 Testing Information & Quick Update
COVID-19 Fact Sheet Ryan Shapiro, a 3rd year medical student, has been rotating with us this month from the University of Kansas Medical School. He's taken a moment to quickly update what we know and don't about COVID-19. Please give it a read and reach out with any...
Health Insurance Options & KCDPC
This time of year is when everyone starts thinking about — or starts to avoid thinking about — their health insurance options for next year. If you know our clinic, you know we’re not big fans of the health insurance industry. That said, we do recognize the...
We’re In This Together: Community Resources
“We are not all in the same boat, but we are all in the same storm.” These are isolating times. Everyone (everyone!) is experiencing some sort of grief, loss, transition, or at least major disruption in their lives right now. We all need help or assistance of...
COVID-19 Update
The United States continues to struggle with what many have referred to as a “patchwork pandemic” of COVID-19; different regions of the country suffered severe outbreaks during the spring and early summer, while other areas had no cases at all. In the later summer...
August 2020 Newsletter
If you haven’t noticed, there is quite a bit going on in the world currently. I have found some small solace in professional sports returning in some capacity, a welcome distraction. Soccer, baseball, basketball, and (soon!) football are coming back, although in much...
Work, Exposures, and COVID-19
We’ve been getting a lot of questions both from our patients and the employers we serve about returning to work and how to keep everyone safe at work. Let me start by saying: we’re all figuring this out together, and things are changing quickly. We don’t have hard,...
COVID-19 Update
Hello! This is Dr. Hazen Short here with some updates to our COVID-19 information. Dr. Allison Edwards has a great blog from June, and much of the information in it is still up to date, but I wanted to add some new data as it has emerged. PCR testing This is...
Vaccines
As a business of the 21st century, we try to create an online presence as much as we create a physical presence. We pepper our Twitter and Facebook feeds with fun marketing pictures, news blips, and resources as we see fit. Of all our posts since opening, we...
COVID-19 Update
We haven’t posted an update about COVID-19 in a while because -- well -- there haven’t been many newsworthy changes in the science and medical situation surrounding COVID-19. We’re still eagerly anticipating a vaccine, our communities are crawling out of hibernation,...