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I saw both a paediatrician and a physiotherapist over joint issues.
The pediatrician told me that I definitely have hypermobility/overextension in most of my joints and that was what was causing me pain. The physiotherapist told me the opposite thing - that my joints are too stiff and unable to move properly, and that is what is causing the pain. Paediatrician wrote 6/9 for Beighton scale, Physio wrote 1/9. Both did essentially the same examination.
Who is more likely to be correct in this case?
I watch these VR chat videos. And these people in-game say, "If you wear the headset for long enough, your brain thinks you are actually in the game and develops 'Phantom Pain, ' where if you were to stab them in-game, they would 'feel' it in real life. Is this real? It sounds pretty stupid to me.
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I did that and it got deleted and got told to post it here
I got some labs done and was told my vitamin D was 10 ng/mL where normal range starts at like 30 ng/mL. Physiologically, what happens if vitamin D gets too low? Could a person function at like, 2 ng/mL?
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15050-vitamin-d-vitamin-d-deficiency - general info on vit d deficiency
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/13017-osteomalacia - potential complication of very low vit d. in children, they can develop rickets.
A family member went to see a nurse practitioner with a persistent cough and was diagnosed with walking pneumonia after just a stethoscope exam, and has now been prescribed antibiotics…is this best practice or are there typically further examinations necessary for this diagnosis?
That’s extremely old-school. A chest X-ray would be typical to confirm pneumonia. If the diagnosis is made, antibiotics are the right treatment without the difficulty and delay of getting a sample for the specific infection.
I see. Thank you
My brother recently passed away. He was found unresponsive in his apartment with no signs of foul play or any wounds or anything. He was diagnosed with Bipolar and we found all of the medication he was prescribed by one doctor, all recently refilled. My question were there any interactions with these medications? It was quite a lot of prescriptions and a bit shocking. He was 43.
He was prescribed Gabapentin, buspirone, lithium carbonate er, risperidone, lithium er, and mirtazapine.
Other than double lithium, that doesn’t raise immediate concerns. Two forms of lithium together is unusual, but if his level was therapeutic, then it was therapeutic.
Do visiting doctors sometimes try to "recruit" or "steal" patients from the offices they visit?
My mom's urology office had a visiting doctor come and do a scope for her today. This doc barely understood her chart and history and was telling her that she needed to come down to his office (about an hour away) and do a whole series of tests.
I felt like I was being attacked by a really aggressive used car salesman. So do some doctors try to get patients to come to their practice, whether for billing reasons or interest in a case?
I’ve never heard of a doctor visiting a clinic temporarily. Special guest appearance? A second opinion or referral generally means going to that other doctor, and staying with them or not depends on specifics.
The main urologist left the practice last year and the PA has been managing it since. I don't know all the details. My mom just goes in for regular catheter changes and sees either the PA or the nurse. But they wanted her to get this cystoscopy and I guess this other doc visits the hospital a few days a month. I guess because there is no urologist on staff, they have this visiting urologist come in to look at things.
Hi there!
What sort of gifts go over the best for an entire doctor's office?
edit: if it's helpful info, I know a lot about what not to send (homemade stuff due to safety concerns, etc).
Food always goes great. Plenty of folks bring baked goods.
Thanks! Will consider ordering a cookie platter from someplace nice!
The Wikipedia page for fecal incontinence indicates that inability to contain gas can be a precursor to an inability to contain stool. Is it actually normal to always “hold” farts? I kind of thought it was always involuntary.
It is normally possible to hold in flatus - it can be uncomfortable to do so and sudden changes in pressure from colon contraction, movement, coughing, laughing etc can result in involuntary release.
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