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Email as the preferred mode of doctor-patient communication

I always request my patients to email me rather than phone me for non-urgent matters. I find this is much easier for them - and for me ! I reply to all emails within 24 hours - and since they have to write down their queries, they are well-organised and ask much better questions, so my answers are better. Also, since I give them a written reply, there is much less scope for misunderstandings !...
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Busting the common myths about pregnancy

Pregnancy is one of the most exciting times in a woman’s life and every pregnancy is truly a miracle. Because women having been having babies for centuries, there are still many myths and old wives tales about pregnancy, which modern obstetrics is just starting to dispel.Myth 1. Pregnancy care starts after you get pregnantMost women register with their obstetrician for medical care after they get pregnant. After all, we are all familiar with the adage:...
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Baby care - first weeks

First 4 Wk Turns head from side to side. May fixate face or light in line of vision. Visual preference for human face. At 4 Wk Watches person; follows moving object Body movements in cadence with voice of other in social contact; beginning to smile At 8 Wk Head sustained in plane of body on ventral suspension Follows moving object 180 degrees Smiles on social contact; listens to voice and coos At 12 Wk Early...
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Your Television Is Not A Physician

Published on www.brainblogger.com Your Television Never Went To Medical School <font face="Calibri">Often, usually on television, one viewing will often at times see an advertisement for some type of medication- usually one involved in a large market disease state.  Such commercials are sponsored by typically large pharmaceutical corporations for particular networks on television.  This is called direct to consumer advertising, and both doctors and citizens largely prefer that they do not exist.  </font> <font face="Calibri">Since 1997,...
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The Unreachable Unavailability of Provenge

A fundamental aspect of constitutional due process…..   Published on:  www.psa-rising.com   The Unreachable Availability of Provenge   Terminal patients are those who are not expected to live, usually due to an illness such as advanced cancer. Typically, a cancer patient is considered terminally ill if it appears he or she has 6 months or less to live. Cancer patients who are terminally ill, without cure or tolerable treatment, with the expectation that they will...
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A Progressive Public Health Concern

Another Public Health Care Crisis   Obesity is when excess body fat accumulates in one to where this overgrowth makes the person unhealthy to varying degrees. Obesity is different than being overweight, as it is of a more serious concern.  As measured by one’s body mass index (BMI), one’s BMI of 25 to 30 kg/m is considered overweight.  If their BMI is 30 to 35 kg/m, they are class I obese, 35 to 40 BMI...
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Ensuring Objectivity

Upon information and belief, evidence-based medicine is where the health care provider applies statistically significant and relevant evidence acquired through quality and valid clinical trials utilizing the scientific method.  The health care providers assess the risks and benefits of how they choose to treat or not to treat their patients.  This paradigm of a practicing health care provider is to better predict the outcomes of their treatment of their patients.  Such providers recognize the need...
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It's A Dopamine Thing

Serotonin Enhancing Psychotropic Pharmaceuticals   In the 1930s, physicians approached the mental illness of depression a bit differently that we do today.  While acknowledging a likely cause of depression in one of their patients is often due to some great misfortune, they seemed to focus on what is called a complex.  A complex is disturbances of ideas and impulses that are the cause of consistent habitual patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior.  An example of...
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Pleural Inflammation

Pneumonia acquired while a patient is in a medical institution is called nosocomial pneumonia.  Often, the symptoms are more severe, as the patient usually has another serious medical issue that is being treated in the medical facility as they acquire this type of pneumonia.  If this type of pneumonia is acquired at such a location, it usually happens after the first 48 hours of a patient being in such a facility.  Also, the microbe that...
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Large Molecule Growth

The Innovation of Biologics (Specialty Drugs):  How Is Value Defined Regarding Their Use?   Beginning in the late 1970s, biopharmaceuticals were being researched conceptually for potential creation in at that time in some academic institutions throughout the United States.  And it was here that actual researchers in fact conducted basic research to identify new product candidates as they applied a great amount of time and effort fueled by their curiosity of what may be possible. ...
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