(retained and not retained) showed the same significant increase in the relative rate of complaints with declining communication score (6.55 per 100 practice-years in the lowest quartile compared with 4.78, 4.46, and 4.05 in the third, second, and upper quartile, respectively); however, the ...
Upper endoscopy in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease without alarm symptoms spanned 14.6% to 16.9% in the first quintile of gastroenterologists to 28.2% to 33.8% in the fifth quintile. Among patients with new knee or hip osteoarthritis, 2.1% to 3.4% received arthroscopy in the first...
2. Something Not Right–Not specific to a diagnosis27“It was a child that came in, again, kind of low-grade fever, upper respiratory tract symptoms, but the mom kept saying something that just didn’t make sense to me, which was that the child kept tripping and stumbling. Objective tes...
The most notable adverse complication is cholestatic and mixed hepatotoxicity, identified in roughly 10% of patients with transaminases (AST, ALT) potentially greater than three times the upper limit of normal and alkaline phosphatase twice the upper limit [33]. A boxed warning of hepatotoxicity was...
On the fateful day of Cathy’s accident which was on November 11, both she and I had been recovering from upper respiratory tract infections. As I left the house very early my last words to her were, “Why don’t you open our bedroom window and air out the room for a couple of hou...
2021 Junior League of Nashville Health Disparities in the African American Community Panel: Dr. Carmen April (Upper Left) | Dr Herve Damas (Upper Right) | Mr Kwane Drabo (Lower Left) | Dr. Renee Williams (Lower Right) I enjoyed moderating a great panel discussion last evening on the topic...
Poking my head inside Henry’s doorframe, I made out a small duvet-covered mound encompassing only the most upper corner of his double bed. Peering closer, the details of the singular lump came into focus. Softly, their breaths rose and fell, their bodies entangled into one. My two ...
We’ve gotthe lake cabin that we bought at auction for a song. It was a great second home close to my wife’s family when we were living further west, and it became our primary home when we moved back from Minnesota, but it’s not a great place to live year-round. ...
SS applis & breakfast area w/sliding glass to private deck & addt'l walk-out to backyard. Family room offers wood engineered flooring, gas FP w/tile surround. Half bath & laundry room complete ML. Upper level boasts owner's suite w/wood engineered flooring, 10' vaulted ceiling, double ...