Consultative Medicine — An Emerging Sub- Specialty for Patients with Complex Conditions Linda N. Geng, M.D., Ph.D., Abraham Verghese, M.D., and Jon C. Tilburt, M.D. NEJM Dec 23 2021 Patients with unusual, perplexing, or complex symptoms and conditions are not well served by the fast-paced U.S. health care system. An ...
Moderna and Pfizer's m-RNA vaccines are delivering a specific sequence of m-RNA to our cells. The m-RNA in the vaccine includes information that directs our cells to produce protein resembling the spike proteins on the outside of the coronavirus. This activates our immune system to produce antibodies directed at the ...
The case conference involved the entire clinical care team at the hospital. The doctors, nurses, social workers and dieticians were present. The doctors reported first. The nurses seemed to be excluded. The hierarchy of influence limited the discussion. Our job as advocates was to deepen the analysis of both the ...
Today, we organized a case conference to discuss a complex patient with a psycho-social challenge and a metabolic disorder combined with an eating disorder. She is complex. She has been in hospital for 2 weeks. Because she is complex, a plan is required to manage her. And it is important ...
Our client is very complex. The nurses and doctors are all over the place with ideas about care management. The only way to coordinate is to organize a case conference. A dial in call. Maybe even a zoom call. So our nurses are organizing a case conference with the MRP ...