by Colleen Steffen | May 8, 2024
Our patients often share very private things with us. Sometimes they come to us with problems they haven’t discussed with anyone, not even their closest loved ones. So, it has always felt a little wrong to be taking notes instead of fully engaging with them while they...
by Colleen Steffen | Mar 7, 2024
Humans don’t technically hibernate, but … Between short daylight hours and freezing temps, winter in the Heartland sure does seem to make it a lot harder to get moving. Well, while we wait for the daffodils to pop out all the way, we gathered some ideas...
by Colleen Steffen | Feb 23, 2024
Haven’t you loved the several brighter, warmer days we’ve had this month? With the daffodils already starting to poke up, it makes you feel like spring is just around the corner. But that little taste of sunshine, as pleasant as it has been, might also have shown you...
by Colleen Steffen | Dec 21, 2023
Getting healthier in some way is the go-to New Year’s resolution for a lot of people—who might find they have given up by February. But isn’t eating healthy when the house is still full of Christmas cookies and exercising more when it’s negative 5 degrees outside a...
by Colleen Steffen | Oct 17, 2023
What’s your go-to Halloween costume? Do you go scary in honor of the Spooky Season? Book or movie character? Pun? Just a sweatshirt and an old Target sack? (Looking at you, teens who don’t want to dress up but do want to trick-or-treat—and go for it, we...
by Colleen Steffen | Oct 3, 2023
Autumn is finally, officially here, so what better time, we thought, than to talk about a common and commonly underestimated health issue: falls. (See what we did there?) There are as many reasons a person might fall as there are things to fall over, but if you’re 65...
by Colleen Steffen | Sep 20, 2023
On Sept. 14, Dr. Z gave a Facebook Live going over all the new vaccine information—and boy, is there a lot. In case you missed it, we have summarized all her most important talking points below. Still not sure which shots you should get and/or when? Feel free to call...
by Colleen Steffen | Sep 1, 2023
Dr. Holly Furdge-White is coming to Muncie Primary Care this fall destined to wow patients with her bedside manner. The mom of three boys has the calm, unflappable, quick-to-be-amused demeanor of … a mom of three boys. “I don’t feel like it’s a very hard...
by Colleen Steffen | Sep 1, 2023
Muncie Primary Care’s newest addition, Dr. Nick Berlon, comes to Muncie from over 3,000 miles away in the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska—but no culture shock for him, he says. The Atlanta native brings with him a girlfriend who grew up in Evansville and graduated from Ball...
by Colleen Steffen | Jul 10, 2023
Internists Associated turned 40 last year and—like a lot of 40-year-olds, probably?—we startedthinking about where we’ve been and where we’re going. For us, treating patients like family isn’t just a saying. We are a second-generation, family-ownedpractice dedicated...
