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...
by DrRoger | Aug 7, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
I’ve been an Ob-Gyn for a long time. The late 70’s and early 80’s were a simpler time. Donald Trump would say happier, better time, but his memory is a bit selective. Following deliveries we’d put the placental afterbirth in a plastic bag and toss it in a -80...
by DrRoger | Jul 26, 2016 | Author Insights
Of course Black Lives Matter. The first casualty of emotion is reason. At best, it’s just silly to argue whether black or blue lives matter more. At worst, it is an ignorant (unlikely), disingenuous (likely) and racist false equivalency. Black lives matter, blue lives...
by DrRoger | Jul 6, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
Despite recent blogs on topics such as prescription opioid addiction, Zika virus and rising cesarean rates, the true heavyweight champion in the world of obstetrics has been, and remains, preterm birth (PTB). Seventy-five percent of non-anomalous infant deaths less...
by DrRoger | Jun 22, 2016 | Women's Healthcare
On May 16th my Post Script blog addressed the “Prescription Opioid Abuse Epidemic” going on in the United States. Seemed like something good was happening. An FDA Advisory Panel had just voted unanimously to REQUIRE expanded education and training of providers to...
