Rienstra Clinic

03/02/2022

Part of good health is becoming comfortable with who we are. Humor and self-awareness helps!

The plagues and pleasures of an unusual identity.

02/23/2022

02/05/2019

What should you eat to keep your gut biome in good shape? Some old-fashioned advice, it turns out, may be the key.

01/13/2019

What it’s like to be too big in America

09/13/2018

Learning medicine isn't easy. Figuring out when to abandon what we were comfortable with is more difficult. Getting patients and families to feel happy about it is sometimes more difficult still.

But we make progress.

Procedures live on even after they’ve been proved ineffective. It can lead to harms and wasted resources.

08/23/2018

Human nature in Chicago.

You can learn a lot about a city by seeing it through the eyes of police officers who patrol it.

08/19/2018

What are doctors thinking, and where are they coming from? Buckle your seatbelt, and I'll take the mystery out of the doctor patient relationship.

08/14/2018

At Chicago’s most intense ERs, the degree of mayhem rivals that of a war zone. Working there can take a heavy toll—and yield immense rewards.

07/19/2018

Meet a London doctor still practicing at the age of 106. When asked why, he answers "What would I do otherwise?"

Retirement is becoming more and more expensive – and future generations may have to abandon the idea altogether

07/07/2018

Everyday "emergencies" managed in a costly and ineffective way.

Ambulance services, at their core, are about transportation. We arrive at the crisis point of a story and we almost never witness its resolution.

07/06/2018

A massive study solidifies the link between particulates from cars and diabetes.

06/09/2018

On the southern edge of Tokyo sits the panda-themed headquarters of Ajinomoto, the world’s largest manufacturer of monosodium glutamate.

05/08/2018

Mark Bittman and Dr. David L. Katz tackle the questions they received after their original story on healthy food.

04/30/2018

This is a great, easy to follow video about chronic pain. It helps you understand what current research has been saying about chronic pain - thats its not a ...

04/11/2018

It’s not just how much exercise you do but how you compare yourself with your friends that really determines your fitness.

04/07/2018

Mark Bittman and Dr. David L. Katz patiently answer pretty much every question we could think of about healthy food.

02/13/2018

“An explosion was audible inside each toad.”