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Eloping from a nursing home…It’s not gardenias and wedding cake

To the uninformed, elopement is not a case of Mom being spirited off by some geriatric Romeo to “tie the knot” with white gardenias and wedding cake. It is a serious and potentially deadly situation. The definition of elopement used … Continue reading

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Fat Intake and Heart Disease

How do you squeeze a heart? You clog its arteries with saturated fat. The link between heart disease and high fat intake is well known. Low density lipid levels come from eating lots of saturated fat. Remember, low density lipids … Continue reading

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Waiting in Urgent Care: New Year’s Eve Lessons Part 2

Lessons Learned about Urgent Care 1. It was a better choice to use the urgent care center. I think I could have been seen faster if I had gone to one of the physicians’ offices I passed on the way … Continue reading

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Waiting in Urgent Care: New Year’s Eve Lessons Part 1

Urgent care settings address medical care needs 12 hours a day. They are designed to minimize long waits in the emergency department for attention, and to shunt people with less serious problems to a setting that can effectively address them. … Continue reading

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Brain injuries – how they harm you

Each hemisphere of the cerebrum is made up of 4 lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal. As I think about patients who suffered traumatic brain injury, I see how the location of their injury affects their ability to function. Wilma … Continue reading

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