How To Use geriatrician In A Sentence
- As an internist and geriatrician working (as well as a lifelong New Yorker), I got a bird's eye view as Saint Vincent's did god's work in caring for generations of some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
- Something is happening in hip fracture, said Colin Currie, consultant geriatrician and one of the report's authors. Elderly people waiting less time for urgent hip operations
- Then a larger team, including a geriatrician, pharmacist and physical therapist, develop a care plan. Elderly face lack of geriatric specialists, new report warns
- In half a day, a geriatrician meeting with one team can impact 500 patients, Counsell says. Elderly face lack of geriatric specialists, new report warns
- But there's not a single geriatrician – a doctor who specializes in treating the elderly – in all of Putnam County, where a fifth of the county's 74,000 people are seniors. Baby Boomers: Aging Population Casts Light On Geriatrics Shortage
- Fewer patients are developing pressure ulcers and more are getting the assessment they need from a specialist geriatrician – 37% compared with 24% in 2009. Elderly people waiting less time for urgent hip operations
- We have taken care of people at home with palliative care for six or seven years — people with a range of cancers, scleroderma, emphysema and shortness of breath, says Diane Meier, a geriatrician at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Passages: Plan so later years can be comfortably extended
- He is a general internist, geriatrician, and health services and policy researcher.
- Geriatricians are concerned about standards of assessment and continuing medical, nursing, and remedial therapy care in nursing homes.
- Call a family meeting, but be sure to have a neutral mediator run it — a geriatrician, social worker, psychoanalyst or care manager. Middle-aged women care for everyone but themselves
