Archive for January, 2014
What I learnt from my daughter’s death
Date: January 17th, 2014
The story of my daughter’s illness and death
Mille Niss, my lovely daughter was a poet and a web artist. I actively collected all her poems and took them to a publisher for soliciting. After I submitted her work,
The choice of lawsuits and overtesting for emergency physicians
Date: January 16th, 2014
Just like most of the physicians out there, those of you who read this blog regularly are well familiar with the rather difficult choices that doctors in emergency department have to make.
3 scientific breakthroughs you should know about
Date: January 15th, 2014
Recently, I have been focusing a lot on underappreciated and little known miracles in the world of medicine. It still remains a great mystery that some of these miracles go unappreciated,
Solving the various behaviors that cause obesity
Date: January 14th, 2014
Perhaps your biggest issue is portion size and moving is hard for you even though you know too well that you require some exercise. Perhaps you are stressed out completely and you need a good night’s sleep.
The drawbacks of using Google for self diagnosis
Date: January 13th, 2014
Of late, things have been quite tough for most people as the economy continues to bite and everyone seems to be feeling the pressure. To add salt to the injury, your body has all along been acting weirdly in was it didn’t before.
Is learning from the ones we love possible in medicine?
Date: January 12th, 2014
Inhalation, Perspiration, Exhalation, self- abnegation, equivocation, urination, devastations, etc. are just a highlight of the many things I have in my struggle to get to a medical school.
Gradual growth of skin, food allergies in young ones
Date: January 11th, 2014
Since releasing my novel titled Altamont Augie, so many people have asked many times what being a doctor and a fiction writer have in common colleagues and patients were quite shocked to the idea that the doctor they came to depend on for delivery of technologically health care services to patients suffering from kidney failure and other problems could manage to produce something like a novel.
High blood pressure at the office could be a white coat hypertension
Date: January 10th, 2014
When some patients visit a doctor, they tend to argue that they always have a normal blood pressure at home. Most patients who come to see me have abnormally high blood pressure, sometimes well over 130/90.
This is referred to as the ‘white coat hypertension’. Even though it is believed to be the anxiety of having to see a doctor, it has been proved that long established patients without any anxiety conscious usually exhibit high blood pressure while in the office. Since blood pressure fluctuates naturally and that a visit to the office is not usually a ‘normal’ setting, patients with hypertension or high blood pressure should have their blood pressure cuff at home.
Impacts of baby boomers on end of life care
Date: January 9th, 2014
Baby boomers are America’s largest generation and have spent a significant proportion of their life transforming cultural expectations, ideas and expectations.
The best way to find dangerous physicians
Date: January 8th, 2014
The ability of doctors to prescribe drugs and medications is what makes them different from other kinds of providers. While this not hold true anymore, still, doctors write most of the prescriptions.