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Death and dying are a familiar reality for many medical professionals, but , a palliative care practitioner at Virginia Beach General Hospital and medical director for Sentara Medical Group's Palliative Care Program, literally faces it every day.
Palliative care provides an education about the dying process," said Dobbie, a Norfolk resident. But it's not about giving up on life, she stressed, and in fact strives to address and improve one's quality of life.
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- James M. Feeney, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Correctional Medical Services, Inc.; Arthur K. Brewer, M.D.; John D. Noonan; John Crotty, Medical Director; Donald Kern, M.D.; Kasim Gouda; Charles King, M.D.; Carol Mclellan, Nurse Practitioner, Defendants, Appellees., 464 F.3d 158 (1st Cir. 2006)
Edgar L. Kelley on brief for appellant.
David A. Hilton, Charles M. Urso, and Morrison Mahoney LLP, on brief for appellees.
Before SELYA, LIPEZ, and ...
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FARMINGTON - A jury on Wednesday cleared a health center and a nurse practitioner of medical negligence in the death of a 6-year- old Weld boy in 2003.
Ruth Lundy of Phoenix, Ariz., representing the estate of her son, Aidan Edwards, filed the lawsuit against Western Maine Family Health Center in Livermore Falls and nurse practitioner Susan Roberts.
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Mathis joins SSM Medical Group
Nurse practitioner Holly Mathis has joined SSM St. Charles Clinic Medical Group. Mathis works in the endocrinology department in collaboration with Dr. Jerry Thurman at the Medical Group's offices on Wall Street in St. Charles.
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Electronic Medical Records Aid Dr. Edward Rippel in Achieving Recognition in the Nation's Foremost Quality Assessment Program
ORLANDO -- eClinicalWo...
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DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c82795) has announced the addition of Skin Cancer to their offering...
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As a medical professional who watches her diet, Cathie Jankowski, a nurse practitioner at Roswell Park, believes that if she wants fried chicken, she'd better make it count.
So when the mood strikes, it's Fat Bob's Smokehouse for her, Jankowski said. The Virginia Place barbecue restaurant's crusty, juicy fried chicken is "my ultimate comfort food," she said.
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As a practitioner of integrative medicine, Dr. Sarah Yoakam embraces the best of two worlds.
Yoakam is a conventionally trained medical doctor, grounded in the skills of a general practitioner. But she also has significant interest and training in less-traditional approaches to healing, like breathing techniques, energy work and anti-inflammatory diets. That dual appeal led her to focus her practice solely on integrative medicine - healing that takes mind, body and spirit into consideration.
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No plain error in trial court's allowing medical practitioner to testify to victim's statements made to practitioner, when trial court refused to admit the statements for their truth under Evid.R. 803(4), but allowed the statements for the purpose of explaining why the practitioner examined the victim as she did.