Physicians
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They're recruited from the poorest, most broken places on our planet by a school that believes they can become not just the good but the excellent
physicians
their communities desperately need, that they will practice where most doctors don't, in places not only poor but oftentimes dangerous, carrying venom antidotes in their backpacks or navigating neighborhoods riddled by drugs, gangs and bullets, their home ground.
By 2020, we will be short 45,000 primary care
physicians.
Here in the USA, the California Medical Board accredited the school after rigorous inspection, and the new
physicians
are making good on Cuba's big bet, passing their boards and accepted into highly respected residencies from New York to Chicago to New Mexico.
But occasionally, they do reach into the human medical community, particularly for some speciality consultation, and I was one of the lucky
physicians
who was invited in to help.
I had a chance to rule out a stroke in this chimpanzee and make sure that this gorilla didn't have a torn aorta, evaluate this macaw for a heart murmur, make sure that this California sea lion's paricardium wasn't inflamed, and in this picture, I'm listening to the heart of a lion after a lifesaving, collaborative procedure with veterinarians and
physicians
where we drained 700 cc's of fluid from the sac in which this lion's heart was contained.
Now most of the time, I was working at UCLA Medical Center with physicians, discussing symptoms and diagnoses and treatments for my human patients, but some of the time, I was working at the Los Angeles Zoo with veterinarians, discussing symptoms and diagnoses and treatments for their animal patients.
Physicians
and veterinarians were essentially taking care of the same disorders in their animal and human patients: congestive heart failure, brain tumors, leukemia, diabetes, arthritis, ALS, breast cancer, even psychiatric syndromes like depression, anxiety, compulsions, eating disorders and self-injury.
Physicians
and scientists, we accept intellectually that our species, Homo sapiens, is merely one species, no more unique or special than any other.
Some
physicians
can be real snobs about doctors who are not M.D.'s.
Of course, most
physicians
don't realize that it is harder to get into vet school these days than medical school, and that when we go to medical school, we learn everything there is to know about one species, Homo sapiens, but veterinarians need to learn about health and disease in mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish and birds.
In the United States and now internationally, at Zoobiquity conferences
physicians
and veterinarians check their attitudes and their preconceptions at the door and come together as colleagues, as peers, as doctors.
After all, we humans are animals, too, and it's time for us
physicians
to embrace our patients' and our own animal natures and join veterinarians in a species-spanning approach to health.
The World Economic Forum says that there's between a 10x and a 20x shortage of
physicians
in the developing world, and it would take about 300 years to train enough people to fix that problem.
Catadores are assisted by well-being professionals and healthcare, like physicians, dentists, podiatrists, hair stylists, massage therapists and much more.
Shortly after we reported our study,
physicians
at Mass General Hospital were intrigued by the medical applications of our research.
And they also list the medications that
physicians
have prescribed to treat it, like anti-depressants or hormones.
Well, here's the number of
physicians
in Africa.
In hospitals there, there's a community of nurses,
physicians
and scientists that have been quietly battling one of the deadliest threats to humanity for years: Lassa virus.
It shapes
physicians'
diagnoses, measurements, treatments, prescriptions, even the very definition of diseases.
In doing this we have created at least 100 skilled jobs in Jamaica alone, and these are
physicians
with expertise and special training.
When high blood pressure screening expanded from clinics and hospitals to communities in the 1960s and '70s, black
physicians
like Dr. Eli Saunders in Baltimore and Dr. Keith Ferdinand in New Orleans were at the forefront of bringing health promotion to community hubs in urban black neighborhoods.
Again, because we goofy, long white-coat
physicians
are trained and of the mantra of dealing with this, not with this.
The ethicists and epidemiologists try to figure out how best to distribute medicine, and the hospitals and
physicians
are absolutely obsessed with their protocols and checklists, trying to figure out how best to safely apply medicine.
And so I encourage you to seek humility and curiosity in your
physicians.
All of these qualities make exosomes invaluable messengers that potentially allow
physicians
to eavesdrop on your health at the cellular level.
The transition from cure to care remains a challenging one for many hospital
physicians
whose training has really been about saving lives, not about gently guiding the patient to the end of life.
The Boston Medical Center has added lawyers to the medical team so that
physicians
can improve the health of their patients because the lawyers are addressing the nonmedical needs their patients have.
When I talk to my colleagues,
physicians
in particular, about medical marijuana, they say, "Oh, we need more evidence.
As physicians, Paul and I were in a good position to understand and even accept his diagnosis.
In a survey of physicians, 55 percent said they painted a rosier picture than their honest opinion when describing a patient's prognosis.
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