Neighborhood Radiologist

It’s Friday night. After a long work week, you are ready to blow off some steam with your crew at the local TGI Fridays. But before you can even dig into some cheesy mozzarella sticks, you get a sharp pain in your abdomen, bad enough that you nearly drop your 60oz …

I was very familiar with kidney stones long before I learned about them in medical school. My mother suffered from numerous kidney stones over the years, and I vividly recall her writhing on the bathroom floor and vomiting from the severe pain. Some say the pain from kidney stones—called renal colic—rivals or …