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St. Claire HealthCare (SCH) is proud to announce the addition of emergency medicine physician Benjamin Mattingly, MD, to its medical staff.
Growing up in Morehead, Dr. Mattingly never planned to become a doctor. He had considered becoming a professor like his father, but medicine certainly wasn’t in his plans.
“I didn’t really like hospitals growing up … I didn’t like the way they smelled,” he said.
Somehow his wife, Jenni, a physician assistant, got him to reconsider medicine. She suggested he shadow a few physicians to see what it was all about. He got past the ‘hospital smell,’ took her up on her advice, and found himself on a career path that would lead him to the highest peaks in the world, but more about that later.
Published April 26, 2021, 12:12 AM
Wala Lang
Hi from your usual writer Jaime C. Laya. Let’s say the year-long Covid-19 lockdown is already getting to you and you’ve decided that you need fresh air, exercise, and something to look at other than wall and fence. You already know more or less what hiking possibilities are but naturally you want to know the specifics: what, where, how all the details. So you ask.
Can hiking be a family affair with spouse and young children?
A spouse and kids may be more interested in indoor activities like cooking, shopping, watching Netflix, or computer gaming. The probability of only spouse and/or one or two children wanting to join is higher than the entire family tagging along.
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Pioneering Gay Climber Silvia Vasquez-Lavado on Hiking as Healing
The first gay woman to summit the highest peaks on all seven continents will be played on screen by Selena Gomez.
This piece first appeared in The Advocate
“I come from the Andes, I’ve never been a hiker,” says Silvia Vasquez -Lavado, the first gay woman to conquer the famed Seven Summits.
But an ayahuasca-fueled trip to her fraught childhood with her mom and dad in the early aughts had her envisioning mountains. Soon after that and following an outing to Sports Basement for some climbing equipment in 2005, she began the journey that would take her to the highest peak on each of the seven continents an adventure that culminated in 2018 with her glorious climb to the top of Denali in North America. It was there that Vasquez-Lavado claimed the honor of being the first out gay woman to complete the arduous challenge. But it was never about being a “first” for her.