Your First Visit
By Tauseef Ahmed, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Oncology / Hematology at New York Medical College
Your tests have come back. The news is not good and your doctor refers you to a specialist. Oncologist, Orthopedist, Neurologist, each one trusted by your doctor, each one trained to help you, whatever your problem might be. Each one can and should be helped by you.
Here are a few tips to help your caregiver help you:
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Minorities and Breast Cancer
There is a disturbing report out tonight that says minority women, who are at the highest risk for having aggressive breast cancer, are simply not getting their mammograms.
Now, we keep hearing study after study showing how there are ethnic disparities in healthcare. But, mammograms are available for most women regardless of socioeconomic status. So, why minority women are still needlessly facing aggressive, advanced breast cancers?
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Mammogram
A mammogram is a special type of X-Ray that allows doctors to visualize the breast tissue. The mammography machine compresses the breast and this will cause some discomfort.
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VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY
There’s no question, early screening for colon cancer saves lives, particularly among those aged 50 and older. But there is a debate now among medical experts: can patients get as good, and as safe a reading by using virtual colonoscopy, which uses x-ray images, or must they still go for a standard colonoscopy which uses a scope to look into the colon?
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TOMOTHERAPY
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LUNG CANCER SCREENING
Lung cancer has been the focus of medical news reports this week, with the death of Peter Jennings and the Dana Reeve’s announcement that she too has lung cancer.
What effect will these celebrity cases have on the rest of us who perhaps light up?
And what can smokers do to protect themselves?
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The Thyroid
The thyroid gland lies in front of the neck and has two lobes connected by an isthmus. It is an endocrine organ whose responsibility is to secrete a hormone that controls the body's growth and metabolism.
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64 SLICE CT SCANNER
62-year old Howard Fuhr was taken by surprise when he went to see his heart specialist. “I had an abnormal –um—stress test and um the next thing that my cardiologist suggested was having an angiogram and I wasn’t sure if I was ready to go that step,” says Howard.
So, he looked for the most cutting-edge technology he could find… What'’s known as the “64-slice CT scanner. “I sought it out and I consulted with my cardiologist and we both agreed that this would be the way to go at this time,” states Howard.
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Sciatica
The sciatic nerves are the longest nerves in the body. They start in the lower spine, pass behind the hip joint and go down the buttock, down the back of the leg to the foot.
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Carpal Tunnel
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome also called repetitive strain
syndrome results when a nerve that supplies that hand called the median nerve becomes repeatedly compressed.
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COUNTING PITCHES
Atlasorthogonal
The atlas is the top vertebra of the cervical spine. When the atlas become misaligned, it can compress and irritate the nerves and thus cause problems throughout the entire body.
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