Amelia L. Bueche

2 months ago | kevinmd.com | Amelia L. Bueche |Julie Craig |Michele Luckenbaugh |L. Joseph Parker

Skin is the largest organ of the body. It also contains the highest concentration of nociceptors, alerting us to pain at the surface level with the intent to mitigate harm from noxious stimuli. A veritable trip wire for threats from the external environment, it offers palpable and visible responses in the dermatological layer, providing opportunities for intervention to avoid, eliminate, or resolve problematic exposures.

Jan 11, 2025 | kevinmd.com | Amelia L. Bueche |Amy Mae Baxter |Gary Call |Julie Craig

I implore all physicians to watch the film Tipping the Pain Scale. Invited by a friend to view from the perspective of recovery, I accepted in support and out of curiosity for the proposed approach to the treatment of pain. As an osteopathic neuromusculoskeletal medicine physician, this is the chief complaint of many patients seeking care, often addressed with hands-on treatment considering structure and function and the unity of body, mind, and spirit.

Feb 25, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Scott Janssen |Anna Delamerced |Amelia L. Bueche |Wendy Hind

I’m sitting in a windowless room in the hospital’s urology department waiting for my second prostate biopsy, feeling surprisingly calm and relaxed. It’s a surveillance biopsy. Two years ago, the first one revealed “a few scattered cancer cells” while zeroing in on what turned out to be a harmless nodule. I’d learned then that a prostate biopsy will never make anyone’s list of fun things to do. In addition to being, eh, awkward, it was painful and invasive.

Dec 26, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Simon S. Craig |Anna Gladstone |Anna Delamerced |Amelia L. Bueche

An excerpt from From Hurting to Healing: Delivering Love to Medicine and Healthcare. Before we speakMany people enter a conversation with preconceived ideas of how it will go. We constantly make assumptions, and our brains often jump to conclusions based on experience, previous interactions with a particular person, our current emotional state, and our own agenda and aspirations.

Dec 5, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Jennifer Lycette |Michelle Meyer |Julie Craig |Amelia L. Bueche

I, like many of my peers in medicine, am a terrible sleeper. And it’s no wonder, after all. I spent the better part of my twenties and thirties training my brain not to give in to sleep when I needed it. Then, in the rare hours I did sleep, I was forced to wake at a moment’s notice and go from deep sleep to high alert.