Author: Jim Kelsey

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Trading Pigs for Pigskin

August 1, 2020September 4, 2020 Jim Kelsey acute injury, arthroscopic surgery reconstruct ligament, athlete, athlete present, cartilage, cartilage injury, clinic see patient, department 's faculty, diagnosis, Douglas, Douglas 's middle-aged patient, Dr. Lonnie Douglas, Dr. Lonnie Douglas 's career path, EKU, EKU farm, former play day, image001 photo, image002 photo, injury, James Andrews, Josh Adams, Kentucky, ligament, locker, locker room, Lonnie Douglas, Louisville, Louisville football team, Louisville locker room, Louisville school, medicine, meniscus tear, middle-aged, middle-aged individual, motivated group, motivated group of patient, nag issue, one-time aspire veterinarian, orthopedic department, photo, pig, pre-veterinary degree path, PRP, pure sport medicine, restore cartilage, small percentage of time, smell of pig, smell of the turf, sport medicine, sport medicine physician, surgery, trade pig, treat athlete, university of Louisville football team, university of Louisville school of medicine, UofL, UofL health, whiff of a locker room, wool team doc, young athlete, young athlete present, young patient

LOUISVILLE Locker rooms are seldom renowned for their pleasant odors, but then again, neither are pig pens. While one-time aspiring

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His Big Break

August 1, 2020September 4, 2020 Jim Kelsey American sport medicine institute, arthritic disease, arthritis, Arthroscopy, athlete, big break, bone, care of young athlete, construction while, double-majored, gel, general orthopedics, good treatment option, hip arthroscopy, hip joint preservation procedure, image001 photo, industrial athlete, injection, John lair, joint replacement, Josh Adams, knee, knee arthritis, knee replacement, list of after-work activity, Logan, Logan mast, Louisville, Louisville many people struggle, Louisville school, mast, mast 's broken bone, mast double-majored, medicine, orthopedic fellowship, orthopedic residency, orthopedic sport medicine physician, orthopedics, orthopedist, pain, pain relief, patient 's idea, patient 's idea of a successful outcome, played club rugby, preservation procedure, productive level, productive level of activity, PRP, replacement, sport medicine, sport medicine institute, sport medicine physician, treatment option, university of Louisville school of medicine, UofL Health-Sports, UofL Health-Sports medicine, Vanderbilt, young athlete, young Logan

LOUISVILLE Many people struggle for years trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives. That’s not

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Delivering Care

May 1, 2020September 4, 2020 Jim Kelsey Bardstown, Care, career course, Carmen Folmar, cervical cancer, chi, chi saint, colleague, colposcopies, contraception, conversation, COVID, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, delivery, electrosurgical, electrosurgical excision procedure, exam, Folmar, general obstetrics, group obstetrics, gynecology, gynecology care, gynecology side, high-risk condition, image001 photo, in-office procedure, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group obstetrics, lab technologist, Louisville school, Maternal-Fetal medicine, midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, OB-GYNs, OB/ GYN, obstetrics, pandemic, patient range, pregnancy, provide quality care, quality care, retired lab technologist, routine mammography, St. Louis university department, St. Louis university department of obstetrics, support person, support skin, telemedicine, university of Louisville school of medicine, vaccination, virtual visit, wide use of telemedicine

BARDSTOWN In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the general message has been to wait, to stay home, to be

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A Doctor, A Plumber, and An Artist

May 1, 2020September 4, 2020 Jim Kelsey arterial blood flow, artist walk, B., begin of a joke, blockage, blood flow, clinic, compression, compression stock, digestible form, easy-to-understand draw, endovascular, endovascular procedure, endovascular technique, good plumber, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, invasive endovascular technique, leg, leg pain, Liu, Louisville, medical therapy, Nathaniel Liu, Norton, Norton heart, Norton medical group, Norton vascular surgery practice, open surgical procedure, pain, past blockage, pipe, plumb analogy, plumber, procedure, Roto-Rooter, stock, surgeon, surgery, surgery practice, therapy, underwear, university hospital of Cleveland, unorthodox analogy, urogynecologist, varicose vein, vascular institute, vascular surgeon, vein, vein problem, western reserve university school, western reserve university school of medicine, worried patient

LOUISVILLE It sounds like the beginning of a joke. “A doctor, a plumber and an artist walk into a room…”

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Teachable Moments

March 1, 2020September 8, 2020 Jim Kelsey Abdul Jabbar, acid reflux come, advanced GI procedure, Albany, Barrett, Barrett 's esophagus, big deal, chief medical resident, comprehensive GI care, cut edge treatment, edge treatment, endoscopy, esophageal cancer, esophagus, fecal incontinence, Gastroenterologist Matthew McCollough, gastroenterology, gastroenterology fellowship, Gastroenterology health partner, GHP, GI, GI care, GI procedure, Gil Dunn Matthew McCollough, good GI care, help people 's quality, help people 's quality of life, image001 photo, incontinence, Indiana location, internal medicine residency, InterStim®, life change, Louisville, Louisville school, Matthew McCollough, McCollough, McCollough 's fellow partner, medicine residency, new Albany, obesity, one-on-one conversation, pathology lab, people 's quality, presence of a former colleague, reflux, scope of care, Southern Indiana resident, tailbone, teachable moment, university of Louisville school of medicine

NEW ALBANY, IN Like all physicians, Matthew McCollough, MD, completed years of education and training before reaching his current position

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Broad Scope of Practice

March 1, 2020September 8, 2020 Jim Kelsey abdominal pain, bacterium, bad bacterium, big advancement, biologic medication, bowel, broad scope of practice, child pediatrics, colon, colonoscopies, difficulty swallow, disease process, endoscopy, endoscopy center, fellowship, gastroenterology, Gastroenterology health partner, Gastroenterology health partner 's Louisville location, GI, GI issue, good understand, good understand of the microbiome, high risk, IBD, IBD present, image001 photo, Krease, Louisville, Louisville location, Louisville school, medication, medicine, Michael Krease, Microbiome, outpatient scope, partner, procedure, reflux, reflux disease, scope, scope junkie, scope monkey, scope procedure, stool, swallow, trouble swallow, university of Louisville school of medicine, upper endoscopy, wide array of patient, wide range of patient

LOUISVILLE “Scope Junkie.” “Scope Monkey.” He’s heard them all, and he gets the joke, but Michael Krease, DO, wants to

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First in the Fight

March 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Jim Kelsey Brian mulberry, Care associate, CDC, CDC 's guideline, CDC guideline, chairman of the HMH board of director, clinic, cough, cough clinic, COVID-19, COVID-19 case, COVID-19 virus, Currans, Cynthiana, employee, family medicine physician, family medicine physician of family, flu, given day, Harrison memorial hospital, HMH, HMH board, HMH Brian, HMH Brian mulberry, HMH CEO Sheila Currans, HMH chief, HMH chief of medical staff, hospital staff, image001 photo, Kentucky public health department, medical staff, medicine, mulberry, multiple staff, pediatrics, photo, physician, positive COVID test, self-quarantined, state lab, symptom, tabletop, tabletop drill, tertiary facility, thought of COVID-19, united state of COVID-19, virus

CYNTHIANA On January 21, the first confirmed case in the United States of COVID-19 was reported in the state of

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A Thinking Man’s Game

March 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Jim Kelsey Alex Rogers, aspect of internal medicine, Belmont, Belmont racetrack, bluegrass community hospital, care spectrum, career course change, CareFirst, Christine, Christine 's Chinese family, cord stem cell, creation of lifeline genetics, dad, Davanand Doodnauth, disciplinarian, doctor, Doodnauth, Doodnauth serve, early stage of the company, family of nurse, get patient, Hematology-Oncology, HIV-AIDS research, hospitalist, Howard university college, Howard university college of medicine, human virology, image001 photo, image002 photo, institute of human virology, internal medicine, internal medicine internship, internal medicine residency, Joseph east, Kentucky, Lexington, lifeline genetics, long-term care, Man, medical director, medication, medicine, medicine internship, medicine residency, mountainside hospital, multiple disease process, nurse, nurse home, pageantry of the sport, passion, patient encounter, personal aspect of care, photo, physician, post-acute, post-acute stint, practice administrator, practice hospitalist, private practice hospitalist, problem-solving aspect, problem-solving aspect of research, PSC, racetrack, retired horse, scholastic disciplinarian, shortage, SNF, Stanton, subspecialist, think man 's game, thoroughbred, thoroughbred race performance, umbilical cord stem cell, Victor Tovar

LEXINGTON In a time when physicians are in demand across the country, doctors tend to have multiple options on where

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Close to His Heart

February 1, 2020April 2, 2020 Jim Kelsey Avi Eres, balloon technique, become co-owner, become co-owner of Kentucky cardiology, begin of the story, blockage, busy hospital, cardiology, cardiology fellowship, central Tel Aviv, co-owner, co-owner of Kentucky cardiology, Daniel Boone clinic, drug-coated stents, early balloon technique, early love of medicine, end of the story, endovascular technique, Eres, groin, heart care, heart disease, high prevalence, high prevalence of coronary disease, high prevalence of obesity, improvement of cardiac care, interventional cardiology fellowship, Kentucky, Kentucky cardiology, Lexington, Md., medical school, Mubashir Qazi, obesity, open heart surgery, open-heart, patient-centered, PLLC, prevalence, prevalence of extreme case, preventative, preventative therapy, private practice, single blockage, stent, stents, Stents offered good expansion, Stents offered good expansion of the vessel, surgery, technology of drug-coated stents, trans-radial

LEXINGTON You could say it was in his blood. With a mother who was a nurse, Avi Eres, MD, was

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Breathing New Life

February 1, 2020April 2, 2020 Jim Kelsey additional treatment method, aggressive disease, air sack, asthma, biopsy, breath, bronchoscope, cancer, care physician, chi, chi saint, chronic lung disease, COPD, COPD cause inflammation, COPD cause inflammation of the airway, critical Care medicine, critical care physician, cure, Daliresp, diagnosis, effective treatment start, eight week program, Ephraim McDowell, Ephraim McDowell regional medical center, high rate of smoker, ICU deal, inhaler, internal medicine residency, Iram Nawaz, join chi saint, Joseph, Joseph east, Joseph medical group, Lexington, lung, lung cancer, lung cancer screen, lung disease, medicine residency, mom 's inhaler, Nawaz, nebulized form, new life, option, outpatient, patient breathe exercise, physician, pneumonia vaccination, prevalence of COPD, primary treatment option, procedure, proper diagnosis, pulmonary rehab, pulmonologist, Pulmonologist Iram Nawaz, quality of life, seasonal allergy sufferer, shortage of patient, shortness, shortness of breath, smoke, smoker, sufferer, SUNY downstate medical center, third-leading cause, third-leading cause of death, treatment option, university hospital of Brooklyn, valve, vaping, young patient

LEXINGTON Originally from Pakistan, Iram Nawaz, MD, attended medical school there before coming to the United States for her internal

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