Meet Dr. Mary Colfer

For Dr. Mary Colfer, WellcomeMD was the answer to many of the challenges that she faced working in emergency medicine. A Richmond native, Colfer attended the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. After graduating, she practiced emergency...

Pain Pills: The Cautious Approach

Alleviating physical pain is part of the medical record extending back 5,000 years to ancient Egypt. But with the recent development of the powerful synthetic drugs called opioids — oxycontin, hydrocodone or fentanyl, for example — pain relief has moved...