A simple question with simple and complex answers. By Victor Tseng, DO According to the International Association for the Study of Pain, it is “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.” Often people think that Pain Management doctors just write prescriptions for pain medications, … [Read more...] about What is pain?
Winter 2015
Good Deeds Winter 2015
Honoring physicians who are doing community service locally or outside the state or nation. Susan B. Girois, MD, MPH Medical Director, JenCare Neighborhood Medical Centers Susan Girois (née Brown) was born in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the daughter of medical missionaries who devoted their entire careers to serving some of the poorest people on … [Read more...] about Good Deeds Winter 2015
Exceptional Professional, Winter 2015
Lynn B. Ellis, M.Ed, MS, CFNP, OCN Peninsula Cancer Institute Lynn Ellis has spent her entire career working in a field that many consider to be one of the most challenging: taking care of cancer patients, from the very youngest to the oldest. In the earliest years, she did so as a Registered Nurse. Today, she holds a Masters of Nursing with a Family Nurse Practitioner … [Read more...] about Exceptional Professional, Winter 2015
Professional Dissatisfaction in the Medical Office
The first in a series of articles about the challenges of practicing medicine One of the functions of this magazine’s Physician Advisory Board is to recommend medical topics and others areas of interest that Hampton Roads Physician should cover. Dr. Jon Adleberg suggested that we take a look at the ever-increasing level of dissatisfaction among practicing physicians, and … [Read more...] about Professional Dissatisfaction in the Medical Office
Medical Update:
INFECTIOUS DISEASE Outbreak: No longer the stuff of Hollywood movies Contagion. 12 Monkeys. The Andromeda Strain. Even Rise of the Planet of the Apes and World War Z. Since the last half of the 20th century, there’s been no shortage of films and TV series about infectious diseases and their sequelae. Audiences seem to have a fascination for anything that threatens … [Read more...] about Medical Update:
