There’s a million ways to die. There’s death from old age, sometimes referred to natural causes. There’s death from an illness. Death from trauma or accident. We definitely don’t have a choice in many of these cases. I guess a better way to state this would be chose what we want when we do die, …
I have direct experience with how this industry operates. The government regulates them fairly strictly and States perform audits on a routine basis. The homes are frequently horrific in how they care for our elders and chronically ill. This is not to say there aren’t many dedicated professionals that work in the industry that do …
I have always been amazed by the amount of medications Americans take. Sometimes it seems that drugs stick to a person’s medical history and are never questioned or reconsidered. Maybe it’s because we are afraid of what might happen if we stop taking them. Maybe we are afraid to question what another Practitioner has added …
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This group of patients typically are those over 65 years old. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you need a geriatrician. Distinguishing features for true Geriatric patients has to do with frailty, or lack thereof. Do you have home-limiting medical problems, those that make it difficult for you to go to routine check ups and specialist …