Sometimes it's tough. Too many villagers! Too many other mayors calling me because their villages are overrun. Too many sick villagers. Not enough resources for my villagers. But this was a good week.
It is not surprising that almost half of all seniors living in long-term care have been diagnosed with depression. How should we, as physician caregivers, respond?
Chronic pain has no cure. The patients are often angry with us for failing them.
We struggle to keep them working. My heart used to sink when I saw a chronic pain patient on my list.
A patient who kept on wanting massage therapy for his chronic anxiety but wouldn’t consider meds or psychotherapy. That didn’t thrill Dr. Jassam—but then the patient’s requests went to something he had to say no to.
September 2020 was a month of long goodbyes. It was the consolidation of five decades working as a GP and a lifetime of caring. The final months, although anything but routine, brought a sense of cohesiveness to all those years.
The flu shot starts to work two weeks after you get it, and its effectiveness wears off after a couple of months. Most influenza comes in Dec. and on. Yet pharmacies seem to be promoting folks to get flu shots in October.
