Of course it is appropriate to be sure that our patients have an honest and complete assessment of their disease status and likely response to therapy throughout all stages of their care. It has always been our job as their cancer care physician to guide them even when our guidance is not ...
EHR makes it possible for patients and physicians to access medical files digitally. This ease of access can often help increase patient satisfaction and improve care. EHR has become an essential part of any practice, so much so that even single-physician practices can’t afford to go without ...
32, who is married to a physician, is head of development for ACT III in New York, and was occasionally on the set. Maggie Lear, 31, who is single, has, her father says, “a special gift for working with emotionally troubled kids, and she just went back to NYU to pick up...
You’ll like this story. Sometime in her eighties, my Aunt Hildy, who passed on at 94 or so, handed me a book, “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water”, by an Iranian physician with a totally unpronounceable name, Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D. She told me it had changed her life...
There are a few pathways to earning more than doctors make. None are anywhere near as guaranteed as a physician's income, but they are possible.Entrepreneurshipcan be a high-risk, high-reward activity, but some pathways have lower risks than others. For example, imagine you put in just as...
“I think I have a unique opportunity and responsibility being a physician…I cannot go back and say ‘Oh,’ I will let it go.” In this century alone, Texans have seen damage and death from hurricanes Rita in 2005, Ike in 2008, Harvey in 2017 and last July’s Beryl, not to ...
That doesn’t mean you can’t think for yourself, but the supervising physician gets the last word in almost every case. You also will have to do the scut work and not the glamorous surgeries for a long time until it is your turn. Patience is important ...
“I think I have a unique opportunity and responsibility being a physician…I cannot go back and say ‘Oh,’ I will let it go.” In this century alone, Texans have seen damage and death from hurricanes Rita in 2005, Ike in 2008, Harvey in 2017 and last July’s Beryl, not to ...
Other notable words: bovine spongiform encephalopathy, community-supported agriculture, in-line skate, paintball, physician-assisted suicide, single-payer The American Psychiatric Associationupdatedthe distinctions ofattention deficit hyperactivity disorderin the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor...
I dealt with it for over 2 years. To begin with, I felt so bad that I thought I was physically sick. Many days I would not get outside the house due to lack of energy or motivation. My physician finally determined it was depression and started experimenting with physic drugs. These ...