An Elderly Person has Come to You - How Can he Help him?

The Dizzy Patient: How You Can Help

Painstaking elucidation of a patient's symptoms is the key component of the diagnostic workup for dizziness and vertigo. A rational, straightforward, and cost-effective approach that uses minimal, selective diagnostic testing can get to the root of an individual's specific problem. Dizziness is a nonspecific complaint that can have different meanings in different patients, which makes careful a...

Domestic violence: how you can help.

In April of this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that domestic violence results in the “typical” victim missing three days of work per month as a result of being abused. This loss of work results in greater than 1.8 billion dollars in lost wages, earnings, and productivity. With these staggering costs, business leaders have begun to recognize that domestic v...

How Looking at Someone You Don’t Know Can Help You to Recognize Someone You Do

Adaptation to faces has been shown to influence judgments of many different features of subsequently viewed faces. For example, after viewing a face that has had its internal features compressed, subjects report that the features of a normal face seem unnaturally expanded (Webster & MacLin, 1999). Recent work has extended these findings to identity, showing that the judgments of the identity of...

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How can ROTEM testing help you in trauma?