by DrRoger | Mar 18, 2018 | Women's Healthcare
March 16th is actually more than just the day before St. Paddy’s Day. Anyone in medical education recognizes March 16th as “Match Day.” It’s the day when graduating medical students find out where they’ll be working in their respective...
by DrRoger | Mar 2, 2018 | Sports
When you reach a certain age, thoughts begin to creep into your mind in a way that doesn’t happen when you’re young. Will the Eagles ever win a Super Bowl? Well, they did baby, and I still feel the glow. At some critical juncture in childhood, every boy...
by DrRoger | Jan 3, 2018 | Author Insights
Everyone knows the three BIG LIES. “The checks in the mail.” “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.” And, well, we all know what the third one is. Anger over that second lie is probably the major explanation for the...
by DrRoger | Oct 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
There is odd inflection point in the arc of your life when you realize that you are attending more funerals than weddings. I consider myself a spiritual person, although not particularly religious. Years ago we decided on a preference for cremation rather than burial....
by DrRoger | Sep 12, 2017 | Women's Healthcare
That’s what I used to tell my younger brother when he was bugging me. I thought of it recently when I read a Consumer Reports article entitled “Painkillers can pose problems for new mothers.” The article cites several scientific papers published in a...
by DrRoger | Aug 6, 2017 | Women's Healthcare
One of my great young partners, Dr. Krista Wagoner, gave a really informative grand rounds last week. It’s title was “Teaching the Millennial Medical Student” (Gen-Yers, 1977-1995).Being an old coot, I’d heard similar talks in the past as we...
by DrRoger | Jun 15, 2017 | Author Insights
That, of course, is the famous quote from Newsweek in 1975 about Bruce Springsteen. It wasn’t news to me. I’d seen Bruce and the E-Street Band a year before, from the second row of Walsh Gym at Seton Hall University. I knew I’d become involved in...
by DrRoger | Mar 28, 2017 | Sports
I grew up in Columbia, S.C. during the previous golden era of South Carolina Gamecock basketball. The dapper dresser, white convertible Cadillac driving and snarling, bare-knuckled back alley fighter, coach Frank McQuire established a reversed underground railroad;...
by DrRoger | Feb 27, 2017 | Women's Healthcare
As they say on Games of Thrones, “winter is coming.” With the recent assent of King Geoffrey to the United States presidential throne in King’s Landing, our nation appears to be sliding into a dark season of mean. The Id has been given leave to grab crotches and run...
by DrRoger | Jan 15, 2017 | Roger Newman Author
I am proud and excited to announce that the highly lauded new edition When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads will be formally released at the upcoming 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, January 25-27th, 2017 at Caesars Palace in...
