According to the Mayo Clinic’s Daniel Cabrera, M.D., “The moral and societal duty of an academic healthcare provider is to advance science, improve the care of his/her patients and share knowledge.” And based on the ever changing advancements in technology and the way people communicate...
In the digital age, where just about every person you come across carries a smartphone like an extra bodily appendage, it’s no wonder smartphone uses keep growing. As more information is stored and shared digitally, whether for environmental reasons or merely for convenience, smartphones are...
All students know the feeling: stubbornly dragging yourself across campus to your dreaded lecture classes where you’ll spend the next hour and a half mindlessly taking notes and trying to stay awake. Or if you’re like me, you might just skip the lecture all together...
In just a couple short decades, women have made amazing strides in advancing their careers and fostering a gender-equal work environment in the medical field. It was not until the latter half of the 20th Century that it became normal for more than 10 percent...
As the United State’s population has continued to increase each year, it is both natural and vitally necessary that the number of students to enroll in medical school has risen as well. Enrollment rates have increased by 25 percent since 2002, slightly smaller than the...
Primary healthcare is inarguably one of the most important specialties of medicine because of how many people it affects on a day-to-day basis. Since the passing of The Affordable Care Act in 2010, nearly 30 million previously uninsured people now receive health care insurance, dramatically increasing the number of patients who seek...
From the drastic rise in people who suffer from obesity and diabetes, to those with severe food allergies, to health-conscious dieters, there is no denying how much food, and the ingredients in the food we eat, impacts the lives of people more than ever before....
Primary Care Today: Dr. Brian McDonough, a nationally recognized clinical expert, public speaker and writer, hosts this interview series about current issues and trends in primary care practice. Each episode, Dr. McDonough brings in a new medical expert to discuss the unique topic at hand,...
