3/14/2010

"Although a Feb. 27 earthquake in Chile registering 8.8 on the Richter Scale has, in many respects, knocked Haiti's January temblor off the front page, the island nation's lack of building codes and huge number of poverty-stricken residents means the recovery efforts there will be long and hard.

To make a dent in treating a multitude of earthquake victims and others, a team of medical professionals and lay people from Washington County and the Pittsburgh area headed to Haiti a few weeks after the 7.0-magnitude quake.

Instead of making an arduous road trip through the Dominican Republic to Haiti, which share the island of Hispanola, to treat earthquake victims, the team members found themselves whisked to Port-au-Prince on a direct flight precisely because they weren't planning to stay in the flattened capital city of the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.

Dr. Fred Landenwitsch of Claysville Family Practice led a 14-member team last month to Pastor Vaugelas Pierre's New Testament Mission in LaCroix..."

1/27/2010

"...Dr. Fred Landenwitsch of Claysville Family Practice, medical coordinator for the trip, has traveled several times to LaCroix, but because of the massive quake he said, "We won't know until we get there what the best way to help is.

"The people of Haiti, who are destitute in the best of times, are particularly vulnerable to this type of destruction..."

5/19/2010

"Johnny Six '97 is no stranger to the damage that natural catastrophes can wreak on a population—or to the ongoing and insidious toll that poverty takes on children. In 2005, as a young doctor, he traveled to New Orleans to provide medical assistance shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region. This January, after learning about the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 200,000 and injured more than 300,000 in Haiti, he did what so many Americans wished they could do: find a way to help..."

4/8/2010

"But Dr. John Six of Complete Family Care, a branch of Claysville Family Practice, would like to change that.

He wants men to know that erectile dysfunction, fatigue, loss of bone mass and muscle mass, mood swings and decreased libido and concentration don't automatically have to be a permanent part of the aging process..."

6/17/2007
"...In Claysville, Dr. Jay Ziegler has been a fixture since 1980. He was in solo practice for 12 years before being joined by Dr. Frederick Landenwitsch, followed a few years later by Dr. Janine Rihmland. About nine months ago, Dr. John Six joined the practice, which also includes Wilma Groethe, a certified nurse practitioner, and a caring staff that includes Norma Ward, who's been with Ziegler for 27 years..."

9/16/2007   

"...Anyone doubting that type 2 diabetes is a rural epidemic need only speak with Dr. Fred Landenwitsch of Claysville Family Practice in western Washington County..."

Dr. Landenwitsch has been involved in volunteer medical work in Haiti. He recently completed a transcontinental bicycle ride from San Diego, CA, to St. Augustine, FL, as a fund-raiser for a Haitian clinic.