A physician specializing in sepsis discusses diagnosis, symptoms and treatment of the disease.
It’s almost a year since the pandemic first began ravaging the U.S., leaving healthcare providers grappling with how to care for the millions of Americans who have contracted the coronavirus. Still, scientists do not fully understand how to prevent or treat It.
Since the onset of the pandemic, Dr. Dasgupta has been actively treating patients as a pulmonary critical care physician. Then in July 2020, he went from being a physician to a patient when he and his family contracted COVID-19.
Significant alterations in how healthcare is practiced and delivered is a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Will these changes continue?
Dr. Galasko is an associate director at the University of California San Diego Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, which is working to improve current practices in AD.
Dr. Arthur Kleinman cared for his wife, Joan, for 10 years after her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, which he chronicled in his book The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor.
Dr. John J. Ross emphasizes that all patients with undiagnosed neurological disease should be suspected of having rabies.
In 2004, Jeanna Giese-Frassetto became the first person to survive the rabies virus after it was too late to receive a preventive vaccine. While not a distinction anyone would relish, she has embraced the notoriety and helps raise awareness about this typically fatal disease.
Vaccines have historically eradicated deadly diseases, but a resistance among patients is a growing concern for public health.
Dr. Rekha Kumar chose to specialize in obesity when she recognized the condition was a contributing factor to most other diseases.
