Opioids, Recalls and Medical Error at the Forefront of Patient Safety
Today, the most pressing patient safety issues are the urgency of address the proliferation of both prescription and illicit drugs, the ability of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to monitor the safety of prescription medicines after they enter the market and the need to accurately track the number of deaths caused by medical mistakes.
Lyme Disease: A Patient’s Perspective
Persistent health symptoms eventually led Utah-resident Charlotte Cobb to a diagnosis of Lyme disease.
Lyme Disease: A Physician’s Perspective
As a board-certified internist and epidemiologist, Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH, is also a nationally recognized expert in the treatment of tick-borne diseases.
Many National Healthcare Crises Accentuated by the Pandemic
By accentuating many national healthcare crises that have been in the making for decades, solutions could be on the horizon.
Depression: A Physician’s Perspective
Dr. Alexander Papp is a board-certified psychiatrist with 25+ years treating mental health disorders with an integrative approach. He has a special interest in using alternative therapies, including ketamine.
Depression: A Patient’s Perspective
After battling depression for more than four decades, Debbie Dykes has found relief with an alternative therapy that was recently approved by the FDA for treatment-resistant depression.
Innovations for Improving Patient Treatment Outcomes
Catapulted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world of medicine is changing fast, with innovations in telehealth, disease treatments and medication adherence.
PTSD: A Physician’s Perspective
Dr. Phil Baquie is a mental health professional who developed and teaches Tactical Presilience training that provides proactive, preemptive and preventive training to help law enforcement and military personnel defeat PTSD.
PTSD: A Patient’s Perspective
After suffering for years with PTSD and contemplating suicide, Dan Jarvis turned his life around after he encountered a breakthrough treatment called the Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories, a protocol he now uses to help others through his 22Zero nonprofit.
Curbing Disease Through Testing
While there was a need to focus on producing vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, testing remains crucial to give researchers the necessary data on how many people have contracted the virus, how current and future variants spread and how many people have some degree of natural immunity to it.
