Ramping Up the Fight
Timothy Ratliff had no idea he had lung cancer, and neither did the doctor who did his hernia surgery in 2017. A complication after surgery – a blood clot in his leg – led the retired Navy veteran to the…
Health Care
2023 Top Doctors
In our fourth annual listing of Georgia’s top doctors, Georgia Trend is proud to feature outstanding physicians in a full range of medical specialties who are located throughout the state. The list was created in partnership with DataJoe Research following…
Georgia’s Medical Mismatch
Dr. Anna Mirk was a resident in internal medicine and contemplating her options of specialties when she discovered what she loved most was working with elderly patients. “I considered a lot things – cardiology, gastroenterology – but I really ended…
Beyond Heart-health Basics
Even if we don’t always heed them, most of us know the traditional risk factors for heart disease and what we can do to minimize at least some of them. A few years ago, the American Heart Association summed up…
When the Need is Urgent
Someone may choose to go to an urgent care center for any number of reasons — convenient location, insurance coverage, lower medical costs, late-night and weekend hours or walk-in appointment availability. But for Jordan Hemphill of Carrollton, it came down…
2022 Top Hospitals: Ongoing Impact
Healthcare organizations continue to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. While hospital rankings offer useful benchmarking information, this year’s ranking reflects the effects of the pandemic and should not be used to compare with past years’ rankings. In previous rankings,…
Pursuing Premier Public Health
COVID showed us just how vulnerable we are to emerging infectious diseases – not to mention health inequities and underlying conditions that made infected people sicker. But the pandemic also showed us how collaboration could fuel a quick and innovative…
Specialized Care for Athletes
Sports medicine is about more than treating a sports-related injury. Whether it’s an eight-year-old Little League player or a 35-year-old WNBA basketball player, being observed and treated by a healthcare provider who specializes in sports medicine – or a team…
Meaningful Impact
Monumental. Unprecedented. Transformative. Historic. Those are not words you often hear from mental health advocates, experts and professionals in Georgia, a state that ranks at or near the bottom for mental healthcare, year after year. In 2021, Georgia ranked 5th…
Lowering Costs, Saving More Lives
Congenital defects like a cleft palate. After-cancer treatment related to tumor removal. Trauma as a result of a car accident. To repair these conditions and more, reconstructive surgery is vital and oftentimes lifesaving. And advances in reconstruction in recent years,…
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