An interesting research study published in the current issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine finds that energy drink/energy shot use by youth in 8th- 12th […]

Here is a wonderfully short but accurate commentary by Dr. Soper. Click Here to read the entire article.

I am typing this post from JFK Gate B37 as I wait for my connecting flight to home sweet home!   My last day in Liberia was […]

I woke up thinking today would be a lazy day with nothing much to do.  Boy did I turn out to be dead wrong.  I finally […]

Today was the last day in Gbarnga.  I started the morning by finally winning the war against Windows 8 with a successful install of Skype on […]

As many superlatively positive adjectives I used to describe yesterday, I could add one more for today.  It was the first day of clinicals, which I […]

This blog is a race against the generator.  It is going off at 10pm, and with it will go the wifi.  It is 9:52pm. So, today […]

Well, the little white pills worked wonders!  They dried up my runny/bloody nose and I had a great night of antihistamine-induced sleep.  So much that I […]

I learned a valuable lesson this morning.  When in Gbarnga, go to bed early.  Why?  Because the rooster does not care that you stayed up late.  […]