Doctors

Be nice to them, Treat them like there the first patient to come to you? Try and answer or help answer their questions and dont leave them scerd about something! Make sure they're comfortable with how you are examining them..

This may depend on the state in which a person resides, but in general most pharmacists will dispense prescriptions which are 6-12 months old, especially if they are for medications for chronic diseases and you have received them on past occassions.

The pharmacist may use his/her judgment in deciding whether to contact the prescribing physician as to filling an older prescription, to make sure that the patient's condition remains the same as when the older prescription was originally written. Examples of prescriptions for meds which might be questioned could include acute illnesses requiring antibiotics, which should have been filled at the time the script was written by the physician.

Plain and simple you study hard! You would go to chiropractor school.

The heartbeat can be measured in several different ways, the most common being to count the beats to get the heart rate - beats-per-minute. This can be done with a watch and a finger on an accessible blood vessel, an artery.

Or you can take an electro cardiogram, where an electronic instrument is attached by leads to the chest and picks up and registers the tiny electric impulses that controls the heart.

Or you can use a stethoscope and listen to the beats.

Or you can use an ultrasound imager, see the movement, the flow and the heart rate.

Methadone has three medical uses: pain control, maintenance and detox.

In maintenance programs, the addict is given measured doses of a less-intoxicating drug that will allow him or her to function better - take care of business, hold down a job, etc.

While this form of treatment, using Methadone, is popular due to government programs, most addiction professionals consider it unacceptable, as it does nothing to help the person recover from the addiction. The methadone, itself an addictive drug, simply keeps the brain accustomed to the presence of drugs, and does nothing to remove either the need for them or the craving. Put simply, the addict remains an addict - still dependent on drugs in order to function. Combine, with the foregoing, the fact that it is quite possible to get high on Methadone itself, or use it to maintain in between bouts of using other opiates, and you can see that it is not all that it's cracked up to be by the folks with vested economic and bureaucratic interest in its continued use.

Methadone detox is likewise undesirable. At best, an opiate addict has an uncomfortable time in detox. Methadone itself has a longer and more difficult detox than heroin and most other opiates. That means tapering someone off on Methadone will take longer and, if the detox protocol is not followed precisely, the patient is likely to go into full-blown withdrawal. The most common result of that is relapse to the drug of choice.

The bare fact of the matter is that heroin itself is a better choice than Methadone for detox, but it is not legal to use it that way.

The most effective, safest detox protocol is a medically-supervised inpatient program using Suboxone. Opiate detox with Suboxone, properly done, is far shorter and more effective than with other substances, due to its narcotic agonist/antagonist action. The likelihood of relapse is substantially reduced over other drugs and methods, provided that the patient really wants to remain clean.

Having said that, we must caution against the outpatient Suboxone detox that has become widely available in the US and other countries. Outpatient detox is rarely effective, and the doctors providing it are usually not trained in detox procedures. Many of them are storefront operations that, essentially, get the patients hooked on Suboxone and continue to administer it, rather than detoxing the patient and assisting them in finding further help.

You need to see an endocrinologist. You probably have excess cosrtisol in your blood. Moonface usually accompanies buffalo hump. This is called cushings syndrome

Medical billing and physician billing are often used interchangeably. Medical billers take the coded medical record, and bill the insurance company. Medical billers work in doctors' offices, clinics, and hospitals. It is possible for a medical biller to work at home as well.

From what I've come to understand, there are multiple bottlenecks set up within the medical educational system (whether they're on purpose is hard to say). Simply put, qualified students aren't getting into medical school; and then qualified medical students are not getting into residencies; although most residents do get into fellowships (which are generally the last laps of education before officially practicing medicine, not always though). The qualifications of matriculants from just a decade ago are no longer good enough, and go back another decade and the system isn't even the same. The fact that there are people overseeing the system who have come into it decades ago makes it a bit more difficult for them to grasp just how competitive it's become. While you would think competition is a good thing, look at it this way: if you have two equally qualified candidates for one spot, the admissions committee has to split hairs and decide on factors that go beyond being a good doctor, because the candidates are essentially the same. The difference between this example and what's going on in the system is that instead of there being 2 qualified students vying for one spot, it's more like 100. Most medical schools have an acceptance rate well below 10%, a lot of them hovering around 2-3%. You can't tell me with any hint of seriousness that all 97% of the other applicants are unqualified candidates for med school, when many of their own applications would put those of the admission committee members' to shame. Then when it comes time for medical students to apply to residencies, 3 out of 4 students get Matched into residencies. That means 1/4 of highly educated and hard working students can't get into residency. So what do they do? They either enter into this essentially random system called the Second Match or if that doesn't work out they apply during the next Match period along with the new batch of candidates. This pool of applicants builds and builds every year now that it's backing up with all of those 1/4's reapplying. To be fair, most US allopathic med student graduates get matched, but those numbers plummet for US citizens that have graduated from a non US med school, a US osteopathic school, or for non US citizens that have graduated non US med school. Provisions are being made to increase the number of med school spots and residency spots. Sadly this rate is being outmatched by the growing healthcare demands of the population to such an extent that studies conducted by the AMA and 3rd party analytic groups suspect the country to be in need of about 100,000 doctors by 2020. Where will those doctors be? They won't exist. Why? These bottlenecks have a lot do with it. Some say the answer it to look to nurse-based clinics to offload some of the stress on doctors; I don't buy it though. Others still go so far as to recommend virtual clinics, where the patient and doctor never even physically meet, which I find appalling. Personally, I think it's going to start with education. Many of these residency programs cry that they simply don't have enough teachers. My answer: doctors are teachers. Literally, doctor is based off the Latin docere, meaning teacher. As such, I think it's only befitting that we look to the many practicing doctors out there to put their teaching abilities to use and train up-and -coming doctors to fill the spots of those that are about to retire, and there are MANY soon-to-be retired doctors.

So what have we learned?

The limited number of spots currently allotted by the system, for financial or political reasons, is limiting the number of qualified people who want nothing more than to become doctors. And I'm one of them. It's going to take more than seeing patients to fix the system. It's going to take doctors: the people who see the system from the insides out, who live and breathe the stuff every waking moment, who are prepared to take on Washington.

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Good for 4/1/2011

Only if you come in after or have anything left inside.

The M.D. after an eye doctor's name stands for Doctor of Medicine.

The field of psychiatry itself can only do these:

* http://www.answers.com/topic/child-and-adolescent-psychiatry * Adult psychiatry * http://www.answers.com/topic/geriatric-psychiatry * http://www.answers.com/topic/learning-disability * http://www.answers.com/topic/behavioral-medicine-1 * http://www.answers.com/topic/liaison-psychiatry * http://www.answers.com/topic/emergency-psychiatry * Addiction psychiatry * http://www.answers.com/topic/forensic-psychiatry * Neurodevelopmental Disabilities * http://www.answers.com/topic/pain-management * http://www.answers.com/topic/psychosomatic-medicine-1 * http://www.answers.com/topic/sleep-medicine

I have been doing it for over 70 years and my mother did before that. We have never had anything but good results. Is there a reason not to???

That is such a broad question, and tempting as it is to say something cynical about our modern medical machine, medicine ideally is the identification and control or eradication of disease. In modern medicine, this might involve surgery, pharmaceuticals, chemotherapy, or the services of a national agency, such as the (U.S.) Centers for Disease Control (CDC), especially in the event of a potential pandemic. There is, of course, the research side of this, and there are many other procedures, i.e., resetting a bone, that apply to meet the stated goal as well.

These principals have been around since before Hippocrates (430 BCE). Hippocrates, however, really defined the practice of observation, not only of the disease itself but of day to day factors that affected the progression or regression of it. He is also the basis for the Hippocratic Oath that all doctors still take today, "First, do no harm".

Her name is Alexa Canady.

Just as the number of physician jobs is expected to grow in the next five years, so is the number of psychiatry jobs. With overall growth in physician employment of approximately 20% over the next decade (US Bureau of Labor Statistics), the number of psychiatry positions may increase by over 6000 by 2014. Given the difficulty of filling many psychiatry residency positions, this may mean an increased reliance on foreign medical graduates to fill the increasing demand for psychiatrists.

These numbers assume that growth is constant across all medical disciplines. However, as the baby boomer population ages the number of psychiatric and neuro-degenerative disorders is expected to increase disproportionately. This means that psychiatry practices are likely to see faster growth than many other physician practices.

One goal of treatment is to manage the condition causing your neuropathy. If the underlying cause is corrected, the neuropathy often improves on its own. Another goal of treatment is to relieve the painful symptoms.

No. A histologist is a graduate of a histology program in which they earn certification as a Histologist or Histology Technologist. A histologist typically holds an Associate or Bachelor degree in addition to the histology (i.e., ASCP) certification.

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For its primitive standard, the American Medical Profession was noted in 1860. The standard of living and education was backward at that time.