Every day as a pediatrician, I get to hear from a lot of moms (including my own) which brings me to Mother’s Day — a time to celebrate Mom for the special person she is. I thought I would share with children and dads some of the gifts mom really would like to get for her special day that ...

If there’s any group of people I can’t stand, it’s Faux Connoisseurs. I have no problem with true connoisseurs because they know what they’re talking about. For example, the chef instructors at Paul Smith’s College: They were all experts in their field; in fact, Paul Sorgule, the ...

Anyone who knows me or regularly reads this column knows I have special reverence for Wilderness. Wilderness with a capital W is “official,” as designated by either the federal or state government. The federal definition was largely written in the early 1960s by Howard Zahniser during ...

Everyone knows a nurse. Even though doctors may be the ones given credit for medical procedures, in my experience, a nurse is the first person who greets anyone during a regular office visit or an emergency. Nurses make us comfortable and safe. They see us at our very worst and still have the ...

In November, I wrote an article about how the city of Albany was trying to reduce speeding in school speed zones by using cameras. That article stated that there were 12,895 speeding tickets issued to registered owners of vehicles that were caught on camera speeding more than 10 mph over the ...