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Fake News: Three Ways to Stop the Spread of Misinformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the world struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic, the surge of fake news to generate traffic for websites has been an ugly side effect of the effort to keep people accurately informed about this dangerous disease. For every honest journalist in search of experts to provide medical information in an effort to curb the spread…
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Keeping Your Patients’ Privacy Secure While Using Coronavirus Tracking Apps
With the increasing need for contact tracing as a necessary means to contain the Covid-19 pandemic from spreading to the public, governments have turned to using smartphone technology to relay valuable information on people’s whereabouts. While many are worried about the surveillance of Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps, governing bodies globally have ensured that all private…
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Caring for Pregnant Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the global health system with many questions being asked and answers still being researched. While most of the economy has crawled to a standstill to prevent the spread of the virus, the birthrate of newborns has not severely declined. The good news is that hospitals are well-informed…
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Telemedicine: The Five Best Practices for Implementing an Online Visitation Program
Living in a world that requires strict physical distancing has turned telemedicine from an interesting option into an essential service seemingly overnight – and has given rise to a large group of telemedicine experiments that are being conducted by teams that have little to no familiarity or training with it. Although modern technology has made…
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How Blood Clots Complicate the Threat of CORONAVIRUS
Doctors are beginning to realize that the Covid-19 virus has been causing dangerous clotting of the blood that has resulted in strokes, heart attacks, and other major issues in the lungs and/or legs of their patients. It has been noted during autopsies that tiny blood clots that are damaging to tissues all over the human…
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Doctors: How to Plan for Retirement
No matter where you are in your career, it is never too early to begin planning for your eventual retirement from practice. Unfortunately, most doctors wait until they are close to retiring before even thinking about it – and when the time comes to actually retire, many would have missed many opportunities to prepare themselves…
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Family Physicians: Tips on Caring for your Patients during the Pandemic
Physicians all over the country have been striving hard to remain updated with all the breaking information relevant to the Coronavirus pandemic. Although it may not be verbalized often enough, it is important to know that thousands of Americans recognize the sacrifices made by doctors all over the country – the work is tiresome, difficult,…
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Telemedicine: Five Truths we now Know about the Future
This global lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has provided an opportunity for the medical industry to rely on “virtual visits” to the doctor as millions of patients the world over adhere to strict physical distancing laws in order to minimize the risk of being infected with the dreaded virus. For the first time in…
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Future Pandemics: Five Ways to Prepare for the New Normal
These days, everybody is focused on preparing for the new normal. The race for a cure is on, but it will take approximately 1 to 2 years (or perhaps even more) to get to the point where the vaccine can be put through the appropriate trials and approved for widespread treatment. It has barely been…
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Shellshocked: Surge of COVID-19 Related PTSD among Doctors is Imminent
The emergency situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic has got the entire industry in so much of a rush to combat the spread of the virus that something very important is being overlooked. Doctors and other frontline health workers all over the world are being exposed to traumatizing events everyday, taking a toll on their…