Season 4

Is the prep actually worse than the procedure? When Nurse Alice talks to patients about colorectal cancer screening, dreading the prep is a major reason people put off their appointment. In this episode, Nurse Alice gets real about colorectal cancer screening while actively sipping her own bowel prep solution on the eve of her own procedure. She tackles the 3 most common reasons people dodge getti...

Are you taking medications... because of your other medications? It sounds like a trick question. But when family nurse practitioner Nurse Alice reviews patient medication lists, she sees it all the time. A routine pill for blood pressure or cholesterol gets started. Months later, a new symptom creeps in—swollen ankles, heartburn, or muscle soreness. Naturally, most people assume it’s ju...

Weight-loss drugs for 8-year-olds? It sounds extreme. And when Nurse Alice first saw the research, her reaction as a parent was probably the same as yours: Have we gone too far? Weight-loss drugs have exploded in popularity among adults. But now, that conversation is reaching kids as young as 8. A new study found that GLP-1 prescribing among children ages 8 to 11 with obesity increased 310-fold be...

Sometimes your body tells you what your mind has been too busy to notice. Nurse Alice was working, traveling, building businesses, caring for patients, raising a family and keeping up with life. From the outside, everything looked fine. But her body was telling a very different story. In this deeply personal episode of Ask Nurse Alice, she opens up about what was happening behind the scenes during...

After a meaningful hiatus, Ask Nurse Alice is back! In this first episode, Nurse Alice finds her way back and talks about what it means to pause, pivot, and reconnect with yourself, and why sometimes stepping away is exactly what your health deserves. Behind the roles of family and ER nurse practitioner, mom, businesswoman, friend, and partner, Alice still deals with the everyday obstacles life th...