You have a lot of concerns when you go in for surgery, and you want to know that your medical team is going to do an excellent job to protect your health. One concern that people often have is that they're going to wake up during the procedure. This does happen, and...
In the moments right after you notice what you suspect is a spinal cord injury, you won't know the severity yet. You may notice a loss of sensation or motor function, but those symptoms could be temporary if you have an incomplete spinal cord injury. With medical...
When someone lives with chronic pain, it’s important that they are able to get the medications and treatments they need to minimize it and help them live their life as normally as possible. It’s realistic that some people do abuse medications and treatment options...
It isn't easy to be an overweight adult. People feel like they have the right to make comments on your appearance or to make fun of you when you go to the gym. Attractiveness bias can affect your career, meaning that you don't receive the same opportunities as some of...
Nurses and others dealing with burnout are in a difficult position right now. Hospitals are overwhelmed due to a variety of issues including a peaking cold and flu season and a mass exodus from the career by health care professionals who have been overwhelmed and...
Imagine feeling under the weather. You might develop a fever or pain that is out of the ordinary. After hours of waiting to see if you’ll start to feel better, you realize that you’re only getting worse. So, you go to the hospital emergency room for tests. There, it...
Surgical operations can remove tumors, repair traumatic damage and even replace a joint that no longer functions. When properly performed, surgeries can correct medical issues or improve someone's quality of life, all with minimal pain despite how invasive the...
All doctors keep notes on their patients. The notes they keep may include diagnostic findings, test results and more. As a patient, it is always smart to look at those notes and to make sure you understand what the findings state. Simply reviewing test results, and...
A job in medicine is a high-demand career. Physicians work long hours and often have to makes sense of seemingly unconnected symptoms to help diagnose their patients. Unfortunately, physicians are often under intense pressure as employees of large, corporate medical...
It’s always a risk that a medical provider could miss the symptoms and signs of a serious illness, but it shouldn’t be. Those who take their training seriously and who focus their time on really listening to their patients should be able to identify symptoms of...
