by DrRoger | Jan 1, 2017 | Author Insights
Sad, and a little embarrassed to admit, it has been a while since my last blog. Holidays somehow manage to consume your time or maybe it’s just too much turkey and treats making me lazy and sleepy. I’ve also noticed that my blogs ( maybe most everyone’s blog) tend to...
by DrRoger | Dec 3, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
This Saturday morning I received a surprising and wonderfully pleasant wake up call. Someone was calling me to the starting line. People were cheering. For a moment, I thought I was dreaming. Finally, the early morning head fog cleared and I could tell that someone...
by DrRoger | Nov 24, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and there are so many things to be thankful for. One of those things is the honor that I have enjoyed, for the past thirty years, of being an Obstetrician-Gynecologist; the most sophisticated of all specialties. I am sure that almost every...
by DrRoger | Nov 9, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
The weekend before last, Diane and I had the singularly prideful experience of watching our daughter, Sarah, participate in the White Coat Ceremony for first year medical students at Emory University School of Medicine (SOM). It was a beautiful and cool autumn day in...
by DrRoger | Oct 13, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
There is an ever shrinking number of people who’ve worked at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), on the banks of the Jonathan Lucas River, long enough to have been here for the two most powerful hurricanes in Charleston’s history. I am one of those...
by DrRoger | Oct 2, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
Dr. Roger Newman and Dr. John Vena welcome being part of a national study that will shed light on environmental factors affecting kids’ health. Environmental influences start in the womb, including stress and pollution the mother is exposed to. Our environment...
by DrRoger | Sep 18, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
With all due respect to my lawyer and architecture friends (including my architect son Taylor in Seattle, WA), I believe that medicine remains one great meritocracies in the United States. Certainly, much greater than even being President where it appears that any...
by DrRoger | Sep 13, 2016 | Roger Newman Author
I had a wonderful day today doing a book signing at Waterfront Books in Historic Georgetown, S.C. for my new release, Two Drifters. Afterwards, I met with a book club who had already read Two Drifters for a discussion and a question and answer session. It was a very...
by DrRoger | Aug 28, 2016 | Author Insights
When you’re older, there are few benefits, but one of the few is insight. There are just a handful of moments that change the trajectory of your life. Sadly, you don’t know it at the time, but it becomes obvious with the perspective of age. One of those moments...
by DrRoger | Aug 21, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
After writing a blog about placentophagy the challenge was to find a topic people wanted to hear about even less. Yesterday, I had my colonoscopy. Every now and then, it’s good for the physician to become the patient. Colonoscopy was invented in 1969 by Drs. William...
