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Vaccines | James Marroquin
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Posts on health, bioethics, and the practice of medicine. Our Own Personal Rainforests →. With measles and the whole issue of vaccinations in the news, I thought I’d share a basic primer on the subject. What is a vaccine? The history of vaccines. Some Diseases Vaccines Prevent. In this disease, people develop muscle weakness and the inability to move. The weakness can extend to the diaphragm, the muscle that moves our lungs so that people have to be placed on a ventilator to support breathing. Hi...This ...
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November | 2014 | James Marroquin
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Posts on health, bioethics, and the practice of medicine. Monthly Archives: November 2014. The first two years of medical school are traditionally when students learn the scientific knowledge that serves as the basis of medical practice and research. Most students are more motivated to acquire this knowledge when they see how it connects to human health. Accordingly, many medical schools now teach at least some of their basic scientific concepts through illustrative clinical cases. On November 27, 2014 i...
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Posts on health, bioethics, and the practice of medicine. Author Archives: jamesmarroquin.com. Are Heartburn Medicines Safe? Almost everyday in the clinic patients ask for my take on recent studies raising concerns about Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) such as Prilosec, Prevacid, and Nexium. I wrote a short article on the topic you can access through the link here. Posted by jamesmarroquin.com. On June 4, 2016 in Uncategorized. Is it necessary to be fasting when you have labs drawn? There wasn’t a si...
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May | 2014 | James Marroquin
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Posts on health, bioethics, and the practice of medicine. Monthly Archives: May 2014. Should Physicians Address Patients’ Spirituality? Even if it is granted that health care providers should recognize patients’ spiritual needs, how are they supposed to practically respond to them? This would seem to be a particularly complicated question to answer in our increasingly pluralistic society. Journal of the American Medical Association. If spiritual well-being is associated with a higher quality of life, it ...
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February | 2015 | James Marroquin
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Posts on health, bioethics, and the practice of medicine. Monthly Archives: February 2015. With measles and the whole issue of vaccinations in the news, I thought I’d share a basic primer on the subject. What is a vaccine? The history of vaccines. Some Diseases Vaccines Prevent. In this disease, people develop muscle weakness and the inability to move. The weakness can extend to the diaphragm, the muscle that moves our lungs so that people have to be placed on a ventilator to support breathing. H...This ...
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August | 2014 | James Marroquin
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Posts on health, bioethics, and the practice of medicine. Monthly Archives: August 2014. An article on the concept of a liquid biopsy explains that “making such screening a routine practice in medicine will be challenging. One difficulty is that while the test may detect the presence of cancer DNA in the body, physicians might not know where the tumor is, how dangerous it is, or even whether it is worth treating.”. You can read the entire article in MIT Technology Review here. A wise man lived in China a...
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Aid in Dying in Belgium | James Marroquin
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Posts on health, bioethics, and the practice of medicine. The Week in Medical News: PPIs and Heart Disease. Aid in Dying in Belgium. As I’ve written elsewhere. Article describes how this is already happening in Belgium. With the Britney Maynard case sparking a movement to give people more autonomy end to their lives, it’s worth examining how this is playing out in the European countries that are doing so. Here’s the link to the. Posted by jamesmarroquin.com. On June 18, 2015 in Uncategorized. Just read t...
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June | 2015 | James Marroquin
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Posts on health, bioethics, and the practice of medicine. Monthly Archives: June 2015. Aid in Dying in Belgium. As I’ve written elsewhere. Article describes how this is already happening in Belgium. With the Britney Maynard case sparking a movement to give people more autonomy end to their lives, it’s worth examining how this is playing out in the European countries that are doing so. Here’s the link to the. Article. http:/ www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/22/the-death-treatment. Although researchers a...
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