COVID-19: There are some days when getting out of bed comes with great ease and other times when it is a hard-fought mountainous struggle.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: I’m often asked by friends, patients and family members alike what I consider the most frightening; the most difficult or the most agonizing of all medical conditions that I’ve seen throughout my career.

CERVICAL CANCER: There is a line in the famous play Les Misérables wherein one of the characters affirms that there is often a grief that can’t be spoken and the pain goes on and on.

THE FIRST STEP: For nearly a decade, The Bahamas has been soberingly ranked as the sixth most obese country in the entire world.