Word: pneumonia
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...true for the good ones who really spend time and develop a relationship with their patients. Internists vary tremendously. Some treat everything, some just do check-ups and referrals. If competent, the former will save you a lot of anxiety, waiting-room time and money. They will treat the pneumonia or the backache themselves, instead of sending you to the pulmonary doc or orthopod...
...great blessing to many in his community. It is also, unfortunately, soon to vanish from American medicine. Even our general practice physicians - who don't do procedures like surgeons do - are fast changing from prescribing docs to "medical distributors": farming out the problems they find to specialists. (Pneumonia? See the pulmonologist. Tonsillitis? Ear, nose and throat doctor...
...missed the beginning of the spring season because of loose cartilage in his ankle. He practiced as hard as possible given his injury—hitting while seated, maintaining his strength—and would have been ready to play against No. 3 Virginia 12 days earlier but contracted pneumonia...
...Then an article was published. My father actually took me and my brother out of school so that he could tell us the truth before we read it in the papers that our mother had committed suicide. Because up until then, he had always told us she died of pneumonia. I asked him once, "Why did you do that?" He said, "What do you tell a three-year-old who doesn't understand?" And he said, "Once having told a three-year-old something that they could cope with at the time, how do you determine the age at which...
...need it," says Dr. Paul Glasziou, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, England. There have never been randomized trials to show that giving electrical shocks to a heart that has stopped beating saves more lives than doing nothing, for example. Similarly, giving antibiotics to treat pneumonia has never been rigorously tested from a scientific point of view. It's clear to everyone, however, that if you want to survive a bout of bacterial pneumonia, antibiotics are your best bet, and nobody would want to go into cardiac arrest without a crash cart handy. "Where randomized trials...