January 2020 Issue

“If you could wake up tomorrow morning and set out on a course to do anything in the world you want, knowing that everything you need to accomplish it was going to be provided, what would you wake up and do tomorrow?” During the last few weeks of my father’s life, this was the constant question that turned out to be one of the most meaningful conversations I have had in my life. I had spent the seven years prior to this conversation on an intentional journey to figure out my personal purpose and live it. But this conversation grabbed my soul. My father was dying. He knew it and

Dr. Jill Buchanan Enter, of Aiken Physician’s Alliance, is a general surgeon with a special interest in helping women maintain good breast health. “It’s the beginning of a new year, a time when we think about health and how we can better take care of ourselves,” she said.“As a female physician, one thing I highly recommend is for women to have their yearly mammogram.” She said women should get a mammogram annually beginning at age 40. “There is some literature out there that says women should get them every other year starting at 45, but I don’t support that,” Enter said. “Breast cancers are found every year in younger women,