There are many roads we can travel with our medications. We can keep adding medications as the number of health problems we develop increases. We can stop taking medications as the side effects of these medications compound, or when our symptoms ameliorate. Once we start on a medication pathway, there are consequences. Despite that, very […]
Category: treatments
In medical school we are taught to begin a consultation with an open-ended question such as, “How can I help you?” The top ten diseases clinicians record following an initial encounter include: upper respiratory tract infections, hypertension, arthritis, diabetes, depression, pneumonia, acute middle ear infection, back pain and dermatitis. That’s in developed countries. It’s a little different in developing […]
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