Turn It Up Foundation Gives Gift of Music to Hard of Hearing It was World Hearing Day on March 3, an annual global advocacy event for raising awareness regarding hearing loss and promoting ear and hearing care, and calling for action to address hearing loss and related issues. …
Your time, your pace, your CME We’re getting ready to launch our 2023 series of CME Conferences – the first conference of the year will be in Savannah next month May 1-4 – and just like we’ve been doing for the past 10 years, we’ll provide top-level …
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Did you know that some of our conferences offer a dual-track option, so that you can attend live presentations in gorgeous, vacation destinations and still have access to recorded presentations for sessions you couldn’t attend live? Watch a session at the airport when you’re heading back home, or even …
Where We Began – The Biomedical Model For more than a century, the biomedical model — derived from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of disease — has been the dominant force in Western medicine. Postulating that all disease is a product of a biologic defect (Conti, 2018). The …
EMS was called to the home of a 24-year-old female who was altered. She started acting “bizarre” and eventually became unresponsive, so her family called 911. The ambulance arrived and, per protocol for an altered level of consciousness patient, checked her blood sugar which they found to …
The world has been engulfed in the Covid pandemic: wearing mask, washing hands, social distancing, and getting vaccines. Instance rates have been openly discussed, posted on news headlines, and made its way in political agendas. All the while, a greater pandemic is silently existing year after year. …
Every year, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Updates the Standards of Care. There are also live updates throughout the year when there is cutting-edge, new research.I have had the great privilege of working on ADA’s Professional Practice Committee over the past 3 years. This is the incredible …
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Have you ever tried to listen to a patient’s heart sounds, and you can’t hear a thing? No lub (S1), no dub (S2). This may occur for a variety of reasons (heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, chronic lung disease, and a large body habitus, to name …
National Heart Health In light of February being the month we celebrate Black History as well as National Heart Health, I would like to consider the women, pregnant women today. Each year, about 700 women in the U.S. die from pregnancy-related problems, and more than 50,000 women …
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Tattoos have challenged me in my work as a dermatology provider. Patients have often invested significant time and monies into this growing form of body art and are sometimes interested in my thoughts and reaction. As a result, I have avoided commenting and instead focus on a …
