Medical Practice BY HANS DUVEFELT In spite of all the talk these days about health care teams and in spite of more and more physicians working for bigger and bigger healthcare organizations, we are becoming more and more isolated from…
Month: September 2023
By MIKE MAGEE This past week my wife and I were at a family event to celebrate my brother-in-law’s 70th birthday. Our extended family has more than a few doctors. A physician nephew who had read CODE BLUE and had…
We all have goals for the future, many of them things that would dramatically improve our lives and the lives of the people we love. Maybe you want to get healthy and fit so you can live a longer, more…
Sept. 6, 2023 – A product derived from cannabis, created in laboratories around the country, has led to thousands of calls nationwide to poison control centers and sent hundreds of people to emergency rooms with complaints of vomiting, hallucinations, not…
Sept. 6, 2023 — You cut yourself. You put on a bandage. In a week or so, your wound heals. Most people take this routine for granted. But for the more than 8.2 million Americans who have chronic wounds, it’s…
By KIM BELLARD There are so many exciting developments in artificial intelligence (AI) these days that one almost becomes numb to them. Then along comes something that makes me think, hmm, I didn’t see that coming. For example, AI can…
SOURCES: Aaron E. Glatt, MD, chair, Department of Medicine, chief of infectious diseases, and hospital epidemiologist, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, NY; spokesperson, Infectious Diseases Society of America. Luis Ostrosky, MD, chief of infectious diseases and epidemiology, UTHealth Houston and…
“If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember that trees lose their leaves every year and they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.” ~Unknown For a big lover like me, heartbreak has always gotten the best…
Over the past 2 decades, treatment options for multiple myeloma have increased dramatically. That’s led to an uptick in survival rates. While there’s still no cure for this blood cancer, more than 90% of those who have it respond to…
Sept. 5, 2023 – You may have heard of the three most common forms of skin cancer — basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma — but there is a rarer and deadlier form known as Merkel cell carcinoma….