Madeline has lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS, for more than 30 years after contracting mononucleosis twice in her younger years.
Many doctors don't know how to react or cope when a patient's pregnancy ends in a miscarriage or stillbirth. At the 2022 Family Medicine Forum, Dr. Sarah Gower offered some advice.
I firmly believe that to lead a purposeful life we need to have the humility to keep learning, the resilience to keep adapting and the passion to keep improving.
Dr. Cristian Lucian Budeci should have rushed his 14-year-patient to a urologist, ruled the Collège des médecins du Québec. Instead he prescribed antibiotics and over-the-counter painkillers.
Study determines how many patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had contraindications to nirmatrelvir–ritonavir and would have required an alternate outpatient treatment.