The Cutting Edge of Medical Technology Content, Community & Collaboration
Stress is with us all the time. Issues at work or at home, getting a traffic ticket, the grocery store out of your favorite yogurt. Life has stresses. We can go to the doctor and ask for a pill or we can learn to deal with our stresses effectively without much medication.
Acute stress is normal and can even be lifesaving – seeing a truck barreling down the road at us. But when stress is chronic it becomes a major cause of ill health.
Chronic stress builds up when the demands…
ContinueAdded by Stephen C Schimpff on June 12, 2012 at 5:57pm — No Comments
We hear that doctors do not like “protocol medicine” – they do not want to follow a “cookbook” when every patient is different. It is not a good understanding of the issues.
Some years ago when I worked in a branch of he National Cancer Institute and then the University of Maryland Cancer Center, we admitted many patients with acute leukemia. The treatment approach including the necessary special tests to obtain, chemotherapy drugs, steps to prevent infection, prevent kidney…
ContinueAdded by Stephen C Schimpff on February 9, 2011 at 3:25pm — No Comments
© 2024 Created by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight. Powered by