How Do We Differ from Other Primary Care Practices?
There are a number of ways, endless ways, that we differ. We are more different than we are the same to be honest, but today when I was...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 9, 20232 min read
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: Broken-Heart Syndrome
We've all probably heard the story of a couple, married many decades, one dies and within days the other dies - death by heartbreak. I...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 8, 20235 min read
Encopresis: Stool Incontinence in Children
Not having a huge pediatric practice, I must admit how surprised I am by the number of pediatric clients I care for who suffer with stool...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 5, 202310 min read
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Many years ago, while watching the sitcom Parenthood with Ray Romano and the hunky, Dax Shepard, it occurred to my former husband that he...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Dec 18, 20226 min read
My Nursing & Midwifery BS File
Tonight I was cleaning out my file cabinet and found a large hanging file titled, "Nursing & Midwifery BS." One would think that my own...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Nov 22, 20229 min read
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Not a pathology we typically learn in school. I don't remember it in any of the textbooks I read, and I am a self-proclaimed nerd; I do...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Nov 19, 20223 min read
Bisexual Women's Health
This may be a surprise to you, as it was to me, but #bisexual women experience disproportionately poorer health outcomes in comparison to...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Nov 15, 20226 min read
Injuries at Work
Occupational injuries and illnesses are among the five leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Each year more...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Nov 4, 20227 min read
Well Child Checks: Getting Beyond the Immunization Schedule
Assessing children and adolescents really is an art, maybe more so than it is even a highly sophisticated science. Children themselves...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 30, 20228 min read
Unpopular View: Xanax
As a sufferer of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, I have long been a fan of Xanax. Yep, those words will get twisted and used against me...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 5, 20223 min read
Vaping & The Risks
Cloud chasing has become quite common among teenagers and young adults, even among a few of my own not-so-little ones unfortunately, and...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Sep 1, 20227 min read
Dissociative Disorder: a Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress
We now know that those who suffer posttraumatic stress disorder don't have to be soldiers who endured war trauma. The event itself isn't...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 20, 20227 min read
Alcohol Damages the Brain
It is often said that one glass of red wine a day is good for you, and this may be true for your heart because of the antioxidants...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 15, 20229 min read
Parental Alienating Behaviors
It seems contrary to logic that if you pour your heart into your children that they will wholeheartedly love you in return. The reality...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 8, 20229 min read
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Although nursing school was more than twenty years ago now... woah, no, almost thirty years ago, I can't say that I remember learning...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 4, 20229 min read
Sensory Integration Disorder
While once thought to be one in the same with autism, we now recognize sensory integration disorder as its own specific...
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Dr. Penny Lane
May 19, 20224 min read
Find Your Passion: Honor Your Soul
Many of us lose sight of things which make us really happy. As many of you can relate, there seems a clear path for most of us - go to...
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Dr. Penny Lane
May 18, 20229 min read
Headaches after Concussion
In my clinical training as a family nurse practitioner, I remember it being pressed upon us that the medical community has largely failed...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 27, 20227 min read
Speaking Up is Extreme Self-Care
A few weeks ago I wrote "Did you say Meaty Vagina? You're an Idiot" and had loads of private messages, thank-yous, and shared posts but...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 5, 20227 min read
Did you say "Meaty Vagina?" You're an Idiot.
As a family nurse practitioner, when the time is right, the child mature enough, and the parents on the same page, I talk with my...
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