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Gradual growth of skin, food allergies in young ones

Jan
11

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

Jan
10

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

Jan
09

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

Jan
08

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.

Who should know about your test results first?

Jan
06

Date: January 6th, 2014

Right now, health care evolution is going through a push pull situation where everything is all about you. People are debating a pretty simple question of whether you can handle to be the first person to know about your test results.

How to make hospitals a better place for patients

Jan
04

Date: January 4th, 2014

Life as a clinical student means that you get to experience certain hardships as you go about your day to day activities.

Inspiring a new oncologists generation

Jan
03

Date: January 3rd, 2014

One of the things that I really enjoy being an academic oncologist is an opportunity of teaching and impacting knowledge on others.

Should OpenNotes be made a standard of care?

Jan
02

Date: January 2nd, 2014

The fundamental OpenNotes tenets aim at ensuring that patients are able to access their notes from their physicians within some few years to come.

The truth about vaccine safety

Jan
01

Date: January 1st, 2014

There is absolutely no doubt that Oprah received spectacular ratings thanks to her popularized Lance Armstrong interview.

A look at laxative free virtual colonoscopy

Dec
31

Date: December 31st, 2013

Research radiologists at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital evaluated the details and accuracy of colon imaging, i.e. colonography or virtual colonoscopy with no laxatives during preparation and having it compared with the traditional colonoscopy.