If when you write "belly sounds" you mean a "growling" noise arising from the abdomen, you are hearing a normal sound arising from normal contractions of the intestines and the movement of air and flu id...
Since my original Question has no absolute correct Answer, I thought it might be of interest to those reading this question and also Paul to look at my response to Newmedstudent and a view which I too k...
Eric, how right you are: "When we fight that battle and cannot win, we feel impotent and sometimes the only way to cope with that feeling is to joke, laugh, and move on. It may not be right, and shoul d...
For more about joking in medicine and from medical students' point of view as written in the Student British Medical Journal and reproduced on Medscape http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/586717?src=m p...
May I ask an important question the answer to which has not appeared in your important question? Has anyone else including your doctor indicated that they had detected an odor to your breath? In the case...
But Beth, don't you think that many patients are going to need interpretation of the data or narrative written in the medical chart? And wouldn't that require further direct communication with the do ctor...
The GP met Fred back in the consulting room following further history, review of investigations and specialists letters and further examination and said, "Fred, I h ave...
If the sinus tachycardia is appropriate, in that the rapid heart rate is a normal physiologic reaction to some other change in body function, there is no need for specific drug therapy since the treat ment...
Brendan, couldn't a patient making fun of his or her illness be a form of unneeded or unnecessary self-denigration? Those cancer patients losing hair from chemotherapy would more likely hide their phy sical...
Yes, Brendan, "laughter is the best medicine"... but will most patients accept that their trials and tribulations fighting their illness for recovery is something to laugh about? Perhaps, laughing abo ut...
I have some confusion with your question but it is not your fault in describing the events. My confusion is why and how you could be "discharged" when it appears that you never "entered" a physician- patient...
First, the doctor must take into consideration the law in his or her community. In the United States, each state has their own legal policy regarding contraception and abortion requested by minor pat ients...
I forgot to answer one point that was brought up in the original question: "Would an ethics committee classify this as child abuse?" Child abuse is really a legal decision based on the facts and in th e...
I would fully agree with Doctor Shore's response to the various aspects of your question. Unfortunately, what Eric has described as appropriate responses would be true in the peace and rationality of your...
I would think at this point, if you have not seen a general physician, you should. Seek out an internal medicine physician who may take a history and perform a physical exam quite different than the g astroenterologist...
If anatomically your discomfort is in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen (just under the left lower rib at the top of the abdomen): Did you ask your gastroenterologist whether you might have the s plenic...
You must first answer the question as to what you mean by "strange".. If it means that there was no history of trauma to cause a bleeding under the skin then such bruises can be spontaneous (without injury...
With no other information provided, the response would logically be to have your doctor check you for type 2 diabetes mellitus. There can be other causes but diabetes would be the first possibility an d...
There is always the city or county or state health department to report a communicable disease as the way out of the dilemma that Dr. Shore suggests. Do you think the health department would follow u p...
What you wrote in your Medpedia "My Profile" is probably more informative ("I had my first bypass in 1996, at least 3 angioplasties since. I now get chest pain quite badly when I travel - on flight an d...
The case most likely as published in the Hastings Center Report was fictionalized and was designed for ethical analysis but certainly presents a realistic possible scenario. One issue, the permission for...
Chris, what if the intent and motivation of a doctor or nurse strike was, despite the immediate effects on some patients, to improve the medical care system to the betterment of all future patients? W ould...
Since either overhydration (drinking too much water) or dehydration (inadequate water replacement) may along with other factors precipitate a migraine headache, the answer to your question is to chang e...
As I write this response, I find that the above Question was written 11 hours ago. Hopefully, the writer has already gone to a be seen promptly by a physician. Pneumothorax may be due to various caus es...
It sounds from your description that you are doing all the "right things" for management of hypertension and cardio-vascular disease in general. If your blood pressure was confirmed to be a sustained hypertension...
Your daughter should investigate another office and see a physician who will be accepted by her insurance program. Whether an MRI will prove something which the other studies have not really is somet hing...
Rena, from your description, your nephew appears to have substantially improved since the initial trauma and is continuing to receive ongoing care and treatment. For receiving the "best care' is to co ntinue...
Brendan, beyond "too risky" from some potential loss of privacy issue associated with the internet, what other "risks" do you anticipate which are not part of the "hand to hand" paper access?
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An update Swiss news release in October 2011 says that Mr. Rappaz must continue imprisoned for another 12 months. Of interest is the apparently current video of Bernsrd's arrival in court.