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Longtime Pardee surgeon retiring; Four Seasons has two honored

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Longtime Pardee surgeon retiring; Four Seasons has two honored
Longtime Pardee surgeon retiring; Four Seasons has two honored

HENDERSONVILLE — Longtime local orthopedic surgeon Amal Das, M.D., is retiring on Dec. 31 after serving the community for more than 30 years. He was honored at Pardee UNC Health Care Board of Directors’ meeting in December.

He’s worked with Southeastern Sports Medicine and Orthopedics (SESM), a department of Pardee Hospital, doing hip and joint replacement surgeries.

According to a news release, Das joined the medical staff at Pardee in 1989 and has been a leading voice on arthritis and joint replacement and reconstruction for more than three decades. He served as the Chair of the Pardee Department of Surgery from 2004-05 and was instrumental in establishing the Pardee Center for Joint Replacement in 1999.

In addition to newspapers across the US citing his research, Dr. Das wrote the foreword to the No. 1-New York Times bestseller, “The Arthritis Cure.” He also authored several groundbreaking academic papers on complex hip revision, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate treatment for knee arthritis, the release said.

Over the course of his career, Dr. Das has performed more than 8,000 hip and knee replacements.

Four Seasons Chief Clinical Officer named 2023 Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing

Four Seasons' Richelle Hooper.

FLAT ROCK — Four Seasons’ Chief Clinical Officer Richelle (Rikki) Hooper, MBA, MSN, FNP, ACHPN, NE-BC, has been named a 2023 Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing, according to a news release from Four Seasons.

Awarded by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA), the designation of HPNA Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing is given to HPNA members who have “made significant contributions to HPNA, the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC), and/or the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF), while also impacting the field of hospice and palliative nursing,” the release said.

“We are very proud of Rikki being acknowledged by this significant honor. It not only demonstrates her commitment to personal learning and growth but also to that of advancing learning and growth in others,” said Four Seasons President & CEO, Dr. Millicent Burke-Sinclair, Ed.D, MBA, MLAS, SPHR®, SHRM SCP in the release. “Over the 19 years Rikki has worked with us, she has positively impacted the lives of patients, families and staff with our organization as well as regionally and nationally. Daily she engages from a place of openness and excellence, always striving to co-create the very best care for our employees and for those whom we serve. Rikki, we are grateful for you and so very

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What does ‘family’ imply for the holiday seasons? | Health and Physical fitness

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What does ‘family’ imply for the holiday seasons? | Health and Physical fitness

At a session earlier this 12 months, my therapist reminded me that no experience is ultimate.  This phrase genuinely resonated with me as I am processing abuse and trauma from my organic spouse and children so I wrote it on a put up-it that I continue to keep on my desk.  Specifically throughout the holiday break year, we are flooded with so numerous emotions, some nice and some not so enjoyable.  We are informed regularly as a result of adverts missing a trauma-educated solution that we must be delighted for the duration of the holiday season and that the time is greatest expended with your household, which is invariably outlined as moms and dads, siblings and children. 

The continuous barrage of messages about how you are supposed to really feel at the holiday break year results in tension to suppress your thoughts and just set on your happy deal with as you try to make your way through the time.  What if you are estranged from your blood relatives or dread the confrontations that predictably happen at holiday break gatherings? A buddy of mine formulated post-traumatic anxiety dysfunction (PTSD) from the genuine physical battles that would occur at her mother’s household in the center of holiday getaway meals.  These battles sometimes necessitated ambulance visits thanks to the injuries.  As a consequence, to this day, she gets nauseous hunting at turkey and pumpkin pie.

The content ending to this story, while, is that this good friend made a decision to do some thing about these traumatic holiday break occasions and as a substitute now spends the holidays with her “logical family” or “chosen family” instead of her biological household.  But what exactly does “logical family” indicate? Reasonable family members accepts you for who you are and welcomes you no make any difference who you appreciate, what you are sporting or exactly where you are operating. Most importantly, rational family does not inform you how you really should come to feel or with whom you are obligated to spend the holiday seasons.

As Barbara Costello, Director of Outpatient Providers (Decide) at Taos Behavioral Wellbeing (TBH) commented, “Especially at holiday getaway time, self-treatment is exceptionally essential.  No matter what the situations you encounter, paying out time with the men and women you really like is essential – even if they are not family.”

So as you are preparing the subsequent couple of months

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