DR. PATRICIA A. FARRELL

Media reports abound and no one needs to tell you how many kids, teens and young adults have been permanently scared by either...

"Feet don't fail me" is a line from a song (Queens of the Stone Age) that has more meaning than the writer ever intended perhaps. The...

All of us, at one time or another, must rely on medical professionals' care for some physical or mental difficulty and we expect those...

Nora Ephron, a woman who had, as they say, a way with words of all manner, used to muse about life and its vicissitudes. When not...

Remember those infamous robo signings of mortgage applications that almost sent us into the hell of a Depression? Well, we have another...

A walk on the sidewalk near my home would prove to be more than just a refreshing day out of doors in a brisk winter. I'd walked around...

As a child, I knew our family physician as a kindly guy who came to the house with his small medical bag, checked my temperature, wrote a...

Cancer, once thought to be a death sentence, can be treated, but never cured, according to experts. They always refer to it as "in...

Truman Capote was a superb author of a number of short stories, two of my favorites would be "A Christmas Memory" and the other, a sequel...

Television is, for many older Americans, the medium where they receive their news and, in the process, are exposed to ads directed...

Major holidays for at least two groups, Christians and Jews, come at a time of the year when not only is the weather not cooperating...

Film has always been an area where creativity can run wild and, in the past, exploration was encouraged, especially in young, edgy...

New Year’s is coming up like a speeding train and you’re standing there right on the tracks. What are you going to do? Is it going to be...

Thinking about charity you probably already have an ingrained bias that translates into "giving" and giving means contributing money. You...

Not too long ago, and possibly still to some extent, it was considered unethical for physicians to sell medications from their offices....

Daily reports from the media often aren't cause for you to begin dancing around your home. Nor do they cause you to view a bright horizon...

Matt Lauer, the iconic and seemingly lovable host of the incredibly lucrative and successful TV show, The Today Show, has fallen from his...

Underfunding education, not funding children's healthcare, and removing the charitable tax deduction are only a few examples of how a...

White racism is alive and well and living undercover in America and, sometimes, no so much undercover that we cannot detect it. It...

Before I was born, and probably for some time afterward, parts of the US that had phone service had to rely on a party-line setup where...