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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Apr 3
- 7 min
Heart Health & Trauma
Yep, I am touching on this one again, because although I've written about heart health and integrative medicine, even shared some about...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Mar 23
- 8 min
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Many may be aware that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears, even obsessions, that lead...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Mar 16
- 4 min
Women's History Month: March
We do live in an amazing time. Women are more and more becoming embolden to speak their voice and really live in their truth. We are...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Mar 14
- 8 min
Anti-Discrimination, Equity & Justice
There has never been a moment in my life where I can't remember being the one to watch out for others. This doesn't make me better; it's...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Feb 15
- 16 min
Sexual Abuse: My Story
This really shouldn't come as any surprise because, well, I am female. While not every woman has a history of rape or child molestation,...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Jan 19
- 8 min
Hypercupremia: Copper Toxicity
Zinc and copper levels are a common evaluations in our practice, as when out of balance, these two minerals can have quite the impact on...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Jan 13
- 5 min
How Do We Differ from Other Primary Care Practices?
There are a number of ways, endless ways, that we differ. We are more different than we are the same to be honest, but today when I was...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: Broken-Heart Syndrome
We've all probably heard the story of a couple, married many decades, one dies and within days the other dies - death by heartbreak. I...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Encopresis: Stool Incontinence in Children
Not having a huge pediatric practice, I must admit how surprised I am by the number of pediatric clients I care for who suffer with stool...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Jan 5
- 10 min
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Many years ago, while watching the sitcom Parenthood with Ray Romano and the hunky, Dax Shepard, it occurred to my former husband that he...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Dec 18, 2022
- 6 min
My Nursing & Midwifery BS File
Tonight I was cleaning out my file cabinet and found a large hanging file titled, "Nursing & Midwifery BS." One would think that my own...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Nov 22, 2022
- 9 min
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Not a pathology we typically learn in school. I don't remember it in any of the textbooks I read, and I am a self-proclaimed nerd; I do...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Nov 20, 2022
- 3 min
Bisexual Women's Health
This may be a surprise to you, as it was to me, but #bisexual women experience disproportionately poorer health outcomes in comparison to...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Nov 15, 2022
- 6 min
Injuries at Work
Occupational injuries and illnesses are among the five leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Each year more...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Nov 4, 2022
- 7 min
Well Child Checks: Getting Beyond the Immunization Schedule
Assessing children and adolescents really is an art, maybe more so than it is even a highly sophisticated science. Children themselves...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Oct 30, 2022
- 8 min
Unpopular View: Xanax
As a sufferer of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, I have long been a fan of Xanax. Yep, those words will get twisted and used against me...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
Vaping & The Risks
Cloud chasing has become quite common among teenagers and young adults, even among a few of my own not-so-little ones unfortunately, and...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Sep 1, 2022
- 7 min
Dissociative Disorder: a Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress
We now know that those who suffer posttraumatic stress disorder don't have to be soldiers who endured war trauma. The event itself isn't...
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Dr. Penny Layne-Gooden
- Jul 20, 2022
- 7 min
Alcohol Damages the Brain
It is often said that one glass of red wine a day is good for you, and this may be true for your heart because of the antioxidants...
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