Breath of Promise- MKE Fresh Air Collective collaboration with True Skool and funded by CHEST grant Happy October! This month, I will be setting off to the American College of…
As a lung doctor, I am very familiar with how humans breathe. We generate a significant amount of carbon dioxide in our bodies and need to exhale it. When we…
Happy holidays! This post is being released shortly after Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the kickoff of the holiday shopping season. I’m sure, like many of you, the gift-giving…
It seems that once in a lifetime events are happening every decade or even more frequently these days as climate change continues to drive disasters in our world. We all…
Gas station where I stopped with my kids- so much candy and fruit flavor... and are those candy cigs on counter? If you use healthcare or live on Planet Earth,…
Since becoming a lung doctor and raising three young children, I find myself thinking constantly about what is in the air we breathe. We spend so much time in our…
Last month we heard from Dr Drew Harris about the ongoing death and disease from coal dust exposure in both miners and the community surrounding mines. We also discussed the…
Last month, I had the opportunity to speak at the American College of Chest Physicians conference in Hawaii. My sister (pictured above) has become the de facto Air Health Our…
We usually call June in my corner of Oregon “Juneuary,” because it is often cold, gray and rainy. Climate change has made this nickname increasingly quaint. I was working in…