Primary Care, Family Doctors Becoming Rare-
Primary care doctors are the ones who take care of you and your family when your sick. If you have a sinus infection, sore throat, pneumonia, diabetes or high blood pressure, your family physician, internist or pediatrician can manage all these.
You don’t need a $200 appointment with a ENT, Endocrinologist or Heart Specialist [...]
Smoking and Colon Cancer Link
Smoking Can Double Risk Of Colorectal Polyps
ScienceDaily (2008-02-02) — Smokers have a two-fold increased risk of developing colorectal polyps, the suspected underlying cause of most colorectal cancers, according to a new study.
The results from this meta-analysis showed pooled risk estimates of 2.14 for current versus never smokers, 1.82 for ever versus never smokers and 1.47 [...]
Doctor Recommends Cigarettes for better health!
This sounds insane! A doctor would never recommend that their patient start smoking for better health, anxiety management or as a remedy for a sore throat right? FALSE! Not too long ago, medical journals and ladies magazines were full of advertisements which showed a doctor smoking and recommending cigarettes as treatment for common medical ailments. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Blacks and Hispanics given less pain medicine than Whites in ER.
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that people of color are treated less for pain when compared to those of European descent. However, overall, Blacks are less likely to abuse prescription drugs when compared to Whites. This study shows that physicians need to be more compassionate in treating all [...]
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