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Fever FAQs (contd.)- Signs, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Rao Doctor

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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Preventive Care To Maintain Your Overall Health

Mesa Family Physician

It includes things like vaccinations, blood pressure checks, cancer screenings, and annual physicals. Tertiary Prevention and Long-Term Health In some cases, patients already living with chronic illness can still benefit from what’s called tertiary prevention —steps taken to reduce complications or improve quality of life.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Clinics are often smaller than hospitals and may focus on a specific type of care, such as general health check-ups, urgent care, vaccinations, or specialty services like physical therapy.

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Going beyond the surface material: A podcast episode on cellulitis

PEMBlog

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Complications that you should be aware of include bacteremia, endocarditis, septic arthritis, or osteomyelitis. So how do you make the diagnosis? Vaccinate your children, people.

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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

PEMBlog

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , we explore pertussis, also known as whooping cough – a disease that remains a public health challenge despite widespread vaccination efforts. Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

We do not have a director of national health preaching against the use of vaccination. Philip Maxwell, Victoria, British Columbia A Seattle reader delivered a diagnosis on X: So I guess this article and the Dr. Interviewed are far left progressive. Not vaccinating is playing Russian roulette with your child! Ours is much better.