Each year we build up the holidays to be a tremendous event.  We have grand hopes that everyone will get along, the food will be perfect and all the gifts will be loved.  The reality is that the holiday season is very stressful in many different ways. Patients with chronic lung disease feel the same pressure to find great gifts and be part of the preparation.  The increased … [Read more...]

Chronic illness like Pulmonary Fibrosis can lead to many important changes in your life.  Activities that you used to enjoy can become more difficult or even impossible to perform.  As a physician who practices in Arizona, many of my patients are or were ardent golfers.  As their illness progressed they often gave up golfing.  This led to loss of connection with their golfing … [Read more...]

Patients ask their doctors many questions.  However, most patients are quite shy when it comes to asking their lung doctor about sex.  This does not mean that patients are not interested in learning more about sex and their lung disease.  Unfortunately, Playboy has yet to publish on this topic. Chronic lung disease requires patients to make many compromises.  They have to … [Read more...]