Asthma Family Physician Patients Physicals 
A Country Doctor Writes
APRIL 23, 2025
Her pediatrician suspected cough variant asthma, but she didn’t respond that much to her medications. “That’s not like wheezing with asthma. That way Melanie’s might get a physical ed excuse from her doctor.” Melanie’s breathing troubles started almost three weeks ago. So I called.
Metro Family Physicians
APRIL 19, 2023
She is 30 years old, a Pharmacy Technician, with mild intermittent asthma (that is, she needs her inhaler ONLY when she has a cold). Steph was intubated the morning of 4/17/2020, one of 52 patients on ventilators in the ICU. The first day she worked with Physical Therapy, she was able to take 4 steps. On arrival to the E.R.,
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