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...
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...
