Click Here For More Information & To RSVP!

Dr. Singh has been a specialist in spinal and neurological rehabilitation for 35 years.

He has held medical director positions at number of institutions including the Barrow Neurological institute in Phoenix.

He has been a medical director of Neurospine and rehabilitation at the Barrow brain and spine since 2008.

Dr. Singh has been a phoenix magazines “Top doc Since 1990.

He has served on the Arizona Governor’s council for brain and spinal injuries.

For more information about Dr. Singh….  CLICK HERE!

I had several patients forward me the video on the new BUTTERFLY ULTRASOUND. This device, which attaches to an iPhone, is a $2,000 attachment to the iPhone that works as an inexpensive ultrasound unit.

I have checked it out, having become aware of it from my daughter-in-law who is in her Emergency Medicine Residency training program at UCSF.

The ultrasound has become an essential diagnostic device in the E.R., as it allows for rapid assessment of internal derangements that indicate bleeding, blood accumulation, fluid accumulation, blood clots, etc… She has become skilled at using the ultrasound in rapid fashion to assess patients with life-threatening issues and to rapidly rule-in or rule-out various conditions that would otherwise require time-consuming testing.

Although very useful in the emergency setting, it is not clear that it would be as useful in the general office setting, as the test results are not explicit enough for subtle findings or complex diagnostics. Still, in an undeserved area, where excellent ultrasound is not readily available, I can see this being a game-changer (rural areas, undeserved countries).

I’m a fan of technology, and the iPhone is an amazing hand-held computer that has multiple uses, but for now, the Butterfly does not sting like the bee……in the general medical office just yet.

If you did not received our new Autumn Newsletter, you can read it here….

CLICK HERE!

For future Newsletters, you can register for your own personal copy….. Click Here!

Yours in good health,

Dr. Lakin & staff

I was truly excited to hear that one of the chief residents at Hopkins during my days there…. won the NOBEL PRIZE in physiology and medicine this year.

Although I did not know Bill Kaelin, MD personally, he was an ever-present presence on the wards during the 80’s at Hopkins hospital as a medical resident and subsequently Chief Resident.

Hopkins was and remains an amazing institution…. and people wonder what the benefit is of being trained at such a place as your talents and abilities will shine no matter where you go. But through those who inspire, push, and challenge you (your contemporaries) you learn good habits, and that is the difference.

Aristotle said it well: Excellence is not an act, it is a habit. We are what we do every day.

The habits passed on and learned at Hopkins remains a touchstone in my career and whatever excellence I have, it is owed to those habits developed back then.

Read more about Bill’s amazing work >>>HERE<<<

I remember vividly the when CT scanners that were first put in The Johns Hopkins Hospital back in the 80’s. There were something like 5 scanners put in all at once. They were revolutionary and they blew our minds. The tests yielded grainy images and took an hour or more to construct via computer. Image evaluation was just beginning as well, so often-time the findings were of unclear significance or meaning.

Nowadays, our scanners take and process the images in the matter of a few minutes for the entire body, the scanners are ubiquitous, and the imaging accuracy & understanding has massively improved. I have seen this revolution during my career and it continues to benefits us through diagnostics and treatment in innumerable ways.

There are so many facets to CAT scanning that are fascinating, from the history of the CT scan as it relates to the music group THE BEATLES and their record company EMI (Read >>>>HERE<<<), to seeing how a modern scanner works behind the scenes view the video here.