Friday, January 01, 2010

The art of listening to the elderly patient


Bernard Lown's Blog



Posted: 01 Jan 2010 07:31 AM PST
In the United States geriatrics is a neglected field. The reasons are not hard to find. Doctoring the elderly is intellectually taxing and extraordinarily time consuming. The elderly never present with a single problem. Their complaints are numerous due to co-morbidities involving different organ systems. In addition to addressing multiple symptoms, the doctor needs to [...]

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