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...round or flat. The response that came out was, "I don't know. I'm trying to take care of my son." I was really nervous. I was totally outside of my comfort zone, and I made a comment that I didn't mean to make. It was a brain fart. I did not know that people were going to hate me as much as they did. I mean, like hate me. My website crashed. But then the women of The View came together and said, If we didn't think you could be here, you wouldn...
...despite the obvious urgency, little will change unless more can be done to lure young docs back to primary care - and that means prime financial incentives. The average medical-school graduate carries a six-figure loan debt, so you don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out why so many people are opting to be radiologists scoring $500,000 a year instead of general practitioners pocketing $150,000. Over the summer, President Obama announced the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program, which erases big chunks of debt for medical students who do 10 years of primary-care...
Dementia is most often thought of as a memory disorder, an illness of the aging mind. In its initial stages, that's true - memory loss is an early hallmark of dementia. But experts in the field say dementia is more accurately defined as fatal brain failure: a terminal disease, like cancer, that physically kills patients, not simply a mental ailment that accompanies older age. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...dementia, it is often impossible to tell which disease the patient had at the outset, as the end result is the same, according to Mitchell's study: a syndrome of symptoms and complications - eating problems (86%), pneumonia (41%), difficulty breathing (46%), pain (39%) and fever (53%) - caused by brain failure. "Dementia ends up involving much more than just the brain," says Dr. Claudia Kawas, professor of neurology at the University of California, Irvine. "We forget the brain does everything for us - controls the heart, the lungs, the gastrointestinal tract, the metabolism...
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