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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.
Who should know about your test results first?
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
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
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?
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
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
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.