If there is one question that is asked of me daily, it is patients and family members wanting to know what their MELD score is, and how does this value impact their ability to get a liver transplant? What’s Cirrhosis? Cirrhosis is a chronic liver disease that can result from various causes such as alcohol […]
The Beginning Liver Specialists of Texas is the best liver team in Texas. Let me explain. I’ve been involved in the care of liver patients since 1988. It was July of that year that I cared for my first liver transplant patient. It was a young boy in New York City. He was in dire […]
For my end-of-the-year blog entry, I’d like to have everybody think about their own personal dashboard. What exactly do I mean by this? Well, everyone that has driven a car is familiar with the dashboard on their car. There are an assortment of warning lights that come on, alerting the driver that something may wrong […]
Since 2003, I have been working with iHeart Radio, and hosting a weekly radio program, YOUR HEALTH FIRST. It airs at 7:00 p.m. central time on our flagship station, 740 KTRH in Houston. It is also streamed live globally on the iHeart Radio app. Our weekly #podcast is typically a recap or expanded version of […]
Looking Back Over the past 20 years, I’ve contributed a lot of educational material to social media and the websites that we administer. One portion of the work we do is in the form of a blog, which is essentially short stories and opinions about items in the news and topics I feel are […]
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