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In the Wake of an Emergency, Doctors Will Be There

Lately it seems like there has been an endless stream of bad news, from natural disasters to horrific displays of human violence against others humans. However, during times of extreme crises, boundaries and divisions between people…

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Talking to Your Pets: Crazy Or Normal? Ask a doctor’s opinion…

Many people with a dog, cat, hamster, fish, or really any pet, can relate to the tendency of talking to your animal. Telling your pet how much you love them, that they’re a “good boy,”…

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Mental illness: Cotard’s Delusion or walking corpse syndrome

Cotard’s Delusion is an obscure mental illness where the sufferers deny the existence of a body part, a portion of their body, or their entire existence. This syndrome is often referred to as “walking corpse…

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Plastic Surgery: Quality of Life and Vanity

While surgical reconstruction to restore proper form and function to the body is widely accepted in the medical community, some physicians struggle to find empathy for patients undergoing elective plastic surgery procedures. Many physicians equated…

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September 26: Mesothelioma Awareness Day

Mesothelioma is a rare, but aggressive, form of cancer that develops in the lining of the lungs, abdomen, or heart, caused primarily by the inhalation of asbestos fibers. While there are only 3,000 new diagnoses…

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Physicians weigh in on breast implant safety

Sermo physicians have previously debated the safety of different types of breast implants, dissecting the risks associated with silicone gel breast implants and saline implants, and detailing horrifying patient accounts of toxic mold/bacteria in or…

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Sermo discussions – HIV prevention and conception planning

by Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS By now you’ve probably heard about PrEP or pre-exposure prophylaxis—the innovative HIV prevention strategy that reduces the risk of HIV acquisition by as much as 90-92% and has the potential…

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Have You Ever Had a Near-Death Experience?

Near-death experiences and out-of body experiences, often associated with each other, are phenomena that are often considered enigmatic and even mystifying. However, a new study was recently published claiming that abnormalities in the inner ear…

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Lack of Awareness Around Telehealth

According to a recent Software Advice survey, patients are very interested in telemedicine and use it as a metric to select their physicians. Software Advice asked 400 patients about their interest in video conferencing as…

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Finding Medical Devices Where They Shouldn’t Be…

A family in Canada will have to undergo 6 months of medical tests after they recently found an intravenous catheter in a tub of ice cream. In light of this story, we asked Sermo physicians,…

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Single Payer Discussed Among US Doctors Post-AHCA

The U.S. remains one of the only countries that does not offer universal healthcare, and the political debate around the future healthcare plan of the U.S. has been widely debated and publicized. Although the American…

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Doctors Share Their Most Cherished Gifts From Patients

All too often, media portrays the relationship between patients and doctors as a hostile negotiation, ignoring the existence of wonderful doctor-patient relationships. We recently asked doctors on Sermo about one element of their great relationships…

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