I’m sitting in my kitchen in the early morning hours with my laptop and a cuppa coffee to kee p me company. Wife and kids asleep. House quiet, except the low drone of the fridge. I look outside the window and see the 50 foot tall pine trees slowly swaying in the breeze. Calm. Peace…. Read More…

Father’s Day is coming this weekend…and that means you and I will be bombarded with spam and facebook posts with the typical banal statements that relate to the day. If you’ve read any of my other Vein Blog posts, you’ve already realized that I tend to approach things with either an “outside the box” or… Read More…

It’s the time of year when we celebrate our family members who have graduated…kindergarten through grad schools and beyond. For extended family, it’s a great reason to get together and celebrate…but for parents, it’s a time for what can only be best expressed in Yiddish: kvelling . To kvell means to simply want to explode… Read More…

I pride myself on the fact that Rosen Vein Care offers treatments that are state-of-the-art. Treatments such as Clarivein® that few docs in the area, if not the country have much experience with. But…I’m kind of a perfectionist by nature…not a bad quality for someone you are entrusting to provide varicose and spider vein treatments…and… Read More…

In under 2 weeks we’ll be celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of my oldest child, Jacob. He’s a great kid (apple…tree…’nuff said) and I couldn’t be more proud to be his Dad for too many reasons to mention during this short post…so I’ll spread the kvelling out over time.

Hello again! It’s Dr. Dave wiling to share some interesting vein facts…and the other half of my tuna sandwich from lunch if you need it. I regularly attend special conferences given by the American College of Phlebology (the governing body of the field specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of vein diseases). One particular conference…attended… Read More…

Medicare Insurance Coverage For Treatment of Vein Disease Whatever your political ilk or inclination,you gotta give props when they are deserved, to those aspects of government “of the people” and “by the people” that actually work “for the people”. This is true in the case of insurance coverage for vein treatment by Medicare.

Every minute of every day we are confronted with choices. After years of practice, we’ve all become experts at existential triage : sorting the needs from wants ; prioritizing the should-do ’s from the l ike-to ’s. When it comes to vein disease…along with other relentlessly progressive medical issues…it’s really in your best interest, and… Read More…

Definitive treatment for spider veins involves injections. Some will claim that superficial lasers or radiofrequency generators can do the job…but, in my opinion…based on experience…I would recommend starting with sclerotherapy first and use those other modalities as a last resort or to treat veins too small to enter with a needle. Sclerotherapy Centuries old, the… Read More…

Wow… a three-parter. Makes me think of “3-Peat”, which makes me think of the glory days of Da Bulls. I’d like to think of myself as the Michael Jordan of vein docs here in my arena at Rosen Vein Care, conveniently located in Northbrook. About the closest I’ll ever come to making a slam-dunk is… Read More…