MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
Dementia and hearing loss are both prevalent in older people.
MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
Physicians usually become adept at choosing medications for the complaints and illnesses that patients bring to their attention.
MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
Physicians usually become adept at choosing medications for the complaints and illnesses that patients bring to their attention.
MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
One of the great things about the history of medicine is how new ideas and approaches to care replace those that were previously the "gold standard" fall by the wayside and are replaced with newer and more effective treatments.
MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
Advance care planning has become a much touted and potentially very important addition to the new operative structure of meeting the many challenges of an ever increasingly older population.
MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
The progress of medicine over previous decades includes benefits in the world of vaccination against especially childhood disease.
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MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
When I graduated from medical school in 1966, geriatrics was already one of the medical subspecialties in Scotland...
MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
In the absence of immortality, the human species has over the millennia developed rites and rituals to help in the passing of life to honor the person who is dying or has died or in some way demonstrate their “courage” and perseverance as well as duty even in the face of almost certain death.
MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
If one is in medical practice long enough it sometimes seems like that sense one gets when sitting in a waiting room and picking up a years old copy of Time® magazine and not realize that it is years out of date, as many of the stories seem to be the same or very familiar.
MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACP, FRCPEdin
For any physician beyond 70 years old, of which I am one, evidence-based medicine as currently configured and taught is a concept that came to us somewhat late in our careers.
