Category: Medical Appointments

• H&W|The Challenges of Seeing a Specialty Surgeon

  🌻 Flava Health & Wellness: The Challenges of Seeing a Specialty Surgeon Needing to see a specialty surgeon is very different than visiting your primary care provider. Specialty surgeons are highly trained in specific areas—such as spine or brain surgery—and because of their expertise, they are often called into emergency situations. Why Appointments Get Delayed…

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  September 8, 2025

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• Life|H&W|The Journey of an Empath Working in Medical Environments

  The Journey of an Empath in Medicine (non medical staff) I have always known that I am an empath—someone who feels the emotions of others as if they were my own. Over the past eight years in the medical profession, that gift has shaped everything about how I show up for patients, families, coworkers, and…

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  September 5, 2025

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• 65|The Power of Proactive Wisdom”

  “What Years of Experience Have Taught Me: The Power of Proactive Wisdom” A Calm Through the Chaos Reflection There’s something that years of showing up, adjusting, and learning under pressure gives you— a seasoned lens. It’s the ability to pause in a moment of tension or uncertainty and ask yourself: “What’s really needed here… to…

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  August 5, 2025

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• H&W|65|✨ How We Carry Pain

  ✨ How We Carry Pain: A Waiting Room Observation A Reflection from the Front Desk Yesterday at work, I found myself looking a little closer than usual—really seeing the women who came through our clinic. Some were my age, maybe a bit younger. And yet… many looked worn down. Tired in the eyes. Weary in the…

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  August 2, 2025

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• H&W|Hey… We Tried: A Day in the Life of Real Healthcare

  Hey… We Tried: A Day in the Life of Real Healthcare By Lady Flava Some days at work flow smoothly. Others? They spin like a record on the wrong speed—and somehow, you just keep dancing with it. Today was one of those days. It started with one patient. One appointment. One family visiting from out…

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  July 31, 2025

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• H&W| 🌻 Prepare with Care: The Emergency Go-Bag + A Preview of the Lady Flava Wellness Journal 🌻

  🧳 Be Ready, Stay Ready: Creating a Wellness Go-Bag for Emergencies by Susan Koshi / Lady Flava Wellness I was driving home recently, listening to NPR News, when I heard a story that stopped me in my tracks. A pharmacist shared how he created a To-Go Emergency Bag for his father—placing it near the door, ready…

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  July 23, 2025

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• 60+|H&W|Returning to Calm: Finding Peace in Familiar Spaces

  Today was a good day. I found myself back in the Cerebrovascular (CV) clinic—a space I hadn’t worked in regularly for over a year. I used to love being here. Back then, it felt like my home base: steady, calm, and familiar. Over time, I shifted into the bustling world of Neurosurgery Complex Spine. The…

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  July 8, 2025

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• Blog Challenge|60+|I Am Most Proud of My Ability to Care

  What are you most proud of in your life? What I Am Most Proud Of in My Life God blessed me with the ability to care for others. I witnessed this gift in action through my parents, my godmother, and the elders who helped shape me. They were living examples of love, kindness, and selfless…

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  June 15, 2025

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• H&W|60+|Constipation

  Constipation definition: a condition of the bowels in which the feces are dry and hardened and evacuation is difficult and infrequent. Calm Through the Chaos: Let’s Talk About Constipation Over the past year and a half, I’ve been on a journey of managing chronic pain—stemming from an injury that caused radiculopathy, compounded by the onset…

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  May 12, 2025

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• Blog Challenge|60+|My Mission

  What is your mission? A meaningful personal mission statement contains two basic elements. The first is what you want to do – what you want to accomplish, what contributions you want to make. The second is what you want to be – what character strengths you want to have, what qualities you want to develop. What…

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  May 7, 2025

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