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Summer Health Mistakes Families in Chapel Hill Make Every Year
WOMEN'S HEALTH Claire Repine, DO, MSCP WOMEN'S HEALTH Claire Repine, DO, MSCP

Summer Health Mistakes Families in Chapel Hill Make Every Year

The trails at Umstead, the greenways along Bolin Creek, the weekend soccer tournaments at Homestead Park — Chapel Hill summers fill up fast. Then July arrives, the Piedmont heat settles in, and the conditions that produce heat illness, medication complications, and chronic condition drift are quietly at work. The families who navigate it well aren't the ones who read the most wellness content. They're the ones with a physician who actually knows them.

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Why Men in Chapel Hill Are Delaying Preventive Care (And What It's Actually Costing Them)
GENERAL HEALTH Claire Repine, DO, MSCP GENERAL HEALTH Claire Repine, DO, MSCP

Why Men in Chapel Hill Are Delaying Preventive Care (And What It's Actually Costing Them)

The last time you saw a doctor was for something specific. A sinus infection. A knee you rolled on a Saturday morning run. You weren't sick exactly — just busy. The way everyone is busy in a college town that runs on ambition, long commutes to Research Triangle Park, and the quiet understanding that your health can wait until the schedule opens up. Only the schedule never quite opens up.

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