It’s coming up on 13 years ago, December 2011, that I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Terry and I were two plus years into our New Orleans adventure and I finally had a recommendation for a rock star primary care physician who I randomly made an intro appointment to see in October ...
In online support groups, people diagnosed with POTS frequently share stories of going to physician after physician who didn’t know to look for POTS. Barboi explains the diagnosis criteria. “Heart rate increases by 30 beats or more per minute when changing positions from lying to standing, ...
(Guilleminault, Kushida & Leger, 1995; Guilleminault, Moscovitch & Leger, 1995; Kushida, Clerk, Kirsch, Hotson & Guilleminault, 1995; Plazzi, Tinuper, Montagna, Provini & Lugaresi, 1995), vagrants (Weller & Jauhar, 1987), and patients who switch repeatedly from one physician to another...
October 8, 2018 | in Action & Activism, Treatment | tagged Get Me In to See My Primary Care Physician!, It's Always Something, Seriously?!? | 3 Comments Seriously??? Why is it that my medical team here in Chicago is starting to resemble a charter school staff with it’s obnoxiously...
Hypovitaminosis D: Searching for the evidenceObjective To assess the effectiveness of a complex intervention in young-old patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy aimed at improving physician drug prescription in primary care, measured b…" [more]doi:10.1016/j.endien.2017.11.005Ignatios Ioakeim...
Robert Centor, MD, Professor and Associate Dean of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, comments on a recent Archives of Internal Medicine article,“Physician self-disclosure in primary care visits: enough about […] Depression During Pregnancy Regaining Control – Part 7 ...
About the Editor Timothy Devos, MD, PhD is an internist-hematologist at the University Hospital of Leuven (UZ Leuven) and the referring physician for palliative care of the hema- tology team. He is Professor of Medicine at KU Leuven. The Slippery Slope Syndrome Eric Vermeer 1 I am...
Jessica Bury and J. Michael Bostwick, “Iatrogenic Delusional Parasitosis: A Case of Physician-Patient Folie a Deux,”General Hospital Psychiatry32 (2010): 210–12. ArticleGoogle Scholar Irving Kirsch,The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth(New York: Basic, 2010), p. 146....
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I will also present a few clinical situations which the primary care physician often meets. I suspect many of you are already wearing bifocals or are delaying the acquisition of them.Presbyopia