by myhealthmd | Feb 22, 2021 | Newsletter
On January 7, a 34-year-old man who had been admitted to a hospital in Bhutan’s capital, Thimphu, with preexisting liver and kidney problems died of COVID-19. His was the country’s first death from the coronavirus. Not the first death that day, that week, or that...
by myhealthmd | Feb 15, 2021 | Newsletter
Every medical school student is taught that most diagnoses are more likely to involve common conditions and diseases than rare ones. Focus on the likeliest possibilities rather than the obscure ones. That makes good sense—except when the physician is confronted with a...
by myhealthmd | Feb 8, 2021 | Newsletter
The reasons for this less frequent contact and the ramifications for patients and doctors practicing primary care are unclear, according to various experts. But some offered possible explanations for the changes, with patients’ increased participation in high...
by myhealthmd | Feb 1, 2021 | Newsletter
The newly discovered coronavirus had killed only a few dozen people when Feixiong Cheng started looking for a treatment. He knew time was of the essence: Cheng, a data analyst at the Cleveland Clinic, had seen similar coronaviruses tear through China and Saudi Arabia...
