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Top Doctors 2012
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Home for the Holidays

Tiny Molly gets a second chance at life

For obstetrician/gynecologist Andrea Collerius and her patient, Jill Wipfield, there seemed nothing unusual about the pregnancy, Wipfield’s first.

Wipfield, 29, went into labor on Sunday, Dec. 19, and the next day, doctor and patient were at St. Joseph Medical...

Young and Afflicted
A local group becomes a national leader in helping young adults with cancer.

Each of the 22 cubicles at the Infusion Therapy Center at the University of Maryland's Greenebaum Cancer Center is filled today, as patient navigator Elizabeth Saylor takes a slow lap around the room.

This is where cancer patients come for chemotherapy. The small spaces include comforts like recliners and televisions, along with seats for guests, but there is no way to evade the deep...

Home Delivery
Some local moms rave about the home-birth experience—and might even break the law to have one.

"My fondest memory is being in my own bed with nowhere to have to relocate to," says Pam Mandell, a Baltimore mom who gave birth twice in her own home. "It was so peaceful and intimate." ¶ Most pregnant women, when that fateful day finally arrives, lumber to their cars amid contractions with a bag that's been packed for weeks, and make the uncomfortable trek to the hospital. They will fill out...

Balanced Diet
Medifast’s Michael McDevitt is Baltimore’s CEO-next-door.

It was April 4, and Michael McDevitt had just watched the Orioles beat the Detroit Tigers during their home opener. To celebrate, he and a buddy headed to Porters of Federal Hill, ordered some beers, and started chatting with fellow patrons. Then, as so often happens in this country where an estimated 68 percent of adults are overweight, the talk turned to dieting. A woman in her late 40s was...

2011 Top Dentists
We found 188 dentists who will work hard for your healthy smile.

If you're looking for a dentist, or maybe just looking for a different dentist, we've done the homework for you.

We surveyed 2,500 DDSes in Baltimore and the five surrounding counties over the course of three months to find out whom they would send a member of their family to. Then, we broke the results down into geographic areas because, you know, nobody's going to drive an hour for a...

Palace of Pain
Our mission: Find out who would go to a museum of dentistry—and why.

If you have a serious phobia about that guy with the drill, you might want to sidestep the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry.

Located in the University of Maryland Medical Center complex on the hallowed grounds of the world's first dental school (founded in 1840), its 40,000 objects tell a history rich with painful trial and error.

There's the 13th-century English...

When a Reviewer Has Cancer
Dining out can be daunting when you're going through chemo—or maybe not.

Who knew that reviewing Baltimore's restaurants over the past year and a half would happen during a challenging time in my life—and that our local chefs would help me get through it without even realizing it?

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009 and went through several months of chemotherapy—all the while, reviewing restaurants. I was worried. Would I be nauseous? Would I lose my...

Digital Lifelines
An increasing number of patients are writing blogs to stay in touch, aid in treatment, and even raise money.

Spirited, high-pitched yelps of Norwegian are coming from the game room at the Hackerman-Patz House across the street from Sinai Hospital.

"He's playing Donkey Kong," explains Silje Lokeng, whose five-year-old son Martin has quickly mastered his latest obsession. "Just before he had the surgery, he saw a commercial for Donkey Kong. And the first thing he said when he woke up was 'Donkey...

Healthy Families, Healthy Kids
An autism specialist’s personal experience inspires a new way to tackle childhood obesity.

Eleven years ago, Dr. SungWoo Kahng moved to Baltimore with his wife to join the staff of the neurobehavioral unit at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Kahng became so engrossed in his work, treating some of the most severely autistic children in the country, that at first he didn't notice when he started to pile on the pounds.

"Quite honestly, I was a slug," says Kahng, now 41, who began...

The Marijuana Crusaders
Two senators—and cancer survivors—take their case to the state legislature.

Last year, when the Maryland State Senate took up a bill that would legalize medical use of marijuana, it had one sponsor with a powerful personal connection to the issue.

Sen. David Brinkley, the conservative Republican from Frederick who cosponsored the bill with Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery), has survived two bouts with cancer and spoke passionately about the debilitating side...