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Second Opinion For The Informed Patient
Source: Patient Advocate Foundation: Please click on image below: The Mission of MDC-Atlanta Remains Keeping Our Patients Informed, and Saving Lives-One Patient at a Time!!
Plain Talk About High Blood Pressure and Diabetes
Click on the above articles to review Millions of Americans suffer from two major chronic diseases: Primary( Essential) High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) and Diabetes type II. These two diseases are associated with significant morbidity and mortality....
How is My Disease/Illness Diagnosed?
Often times, patients are confused as to how a health care provider may derive at an accurate diagnosis in order to render effective treatment, management, and give patients an idea regarding whether or not the patient will get better or not (prognosis). Patients...
Spinal Pain, The Real Truth
Millions of Americans suffer from Chronic Spinal Pain. Many choose to accept the debilitating function that comes with this type of long lasting and consistent pain, often times interfering with daily functional activity and/or routine activity with family and...
Who Interprets Your Cellular or Tissue Sample?
It has been estimated that more than 50 million biopsies are sent to American Medical Laboratories for Diagnostic Interpretation each year. Let's take a look at this for a moment. When you factor in cost for patient to travel to physician's office or hospital,...
Classifying Human Diseases
FUNDAMENTAL CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN DISEASES: 1. Genetic/Inheritable/Congenital: Related to chromosomal abnormality by the transferring of genes from parents to child; or abnormality related to embryonic/fetal development and/ or surrounding birth. 2. Degenerative...
Ten (10) Reasons Why Patients Visit the Doctor
Here are the top ten (10) reasons why patients visit the doctor as observed by MDC-Atlanta: 1. Headaches and debilitating musculo-skeletal Pain 2. Acute Injury due to trauma 3. Acute infection, i.e. cold, flu, bronchitis, sinusitis, pneumonia, gastroenteritis, urinary...
Assurance in Accuracy of Pap Smear and Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine at MDC
GET p16/Ki67 TESTED WITH ANY ABNORMAL PAP TO INCREASE SENSITIVITY BY 91%, click here Typically, when a patient visits a clinician for laboratory medicine evaluation, i.e. pap smear, cellular or tissue biopsy, blood or body fluid testing, the medical laboratory that...