Ultimate Healthcare for Seniors

April 22, 2020

When medical workers won’t listen…

Many of you know my frustration in practicing medicine.  But while frustrating, this is also a funny story I have to share with you. As I was sitting at my computer looking forward to my next patient, I saw the words, “basil dollops” as her reason for coming in. Now

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Caregiving Mastery, Strategies for Mental Decline

April 22, 2020

How to stop the loneliness caregiving brings…

Caregiving is the loneliest profession in the world. Not only that, but it also doesn’t pay well either. No gold stars either. There is no training, no course you can take to become an expert on what your Dad or Mom may or may not do next.  Nope. No crystal

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Caregiving Mastery

April 22, 2020

Mistakes in caregiving…

No truer words…I’m glad I took care my mom while she was alive, but I wish I knew what I now know. Being able to look back at the experience, I had many mistakes, failures, regrets I wish I could have avoided some and yes, I learned the hard way

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Strategies for Mental Decline

April 20, 2020

How do I find the strength to move Mom out of my home?

Maybe you didn’t have a choice at this age, but as an adult caregiver… There came a time when Mom couldn’t take care of herself. In other words, she could no longer live on her own. So, the obvious choice was that she came to live with me. By definition

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COVID-19 Updates

April 15, 2020

How COVID-19 has changed the way we do medicine

We providers are scared. And we know you are, too. Until we have a vaccine against this virus, none of us can sleep well at night.  That being said, I have been busy transitioning from seeing patients in our clinic to now doing telemedicine.   Our number of visits have dropped from 140+ to less than 30

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COVID-19 Updates

March 19, 2020

CDC COVID Precautions for the elderly…just given to us providers…

Hi Everyone,  So I just got off another CDC call and have some more interesting news for you. We’ve all heard the dreadful news about Seattle WA and their nursing homes. CDC wanted to tell us what we providers could do to prevent this from ever happening again… First of

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COVID-19 Updates

March 18, 2020

[COVID] the information your doctors use…

Hi Everyone,  Many of you know I still work in the urgent care clinics. I am now connected directly to the CDC and the Florida Department of Health for the latest on the COVID-19. So we are having podcasts at least twice a week because the information is constantly changing

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Ultimate Healthcare for Seniors

February 7, 2020

3 Reasons You Get Sick…

Here’s what we are seeing in the clinic these days and most of us are living in masks to prevent disease… We call them the ABCs of our clinic…. A = Airplanes – Reason #1  To protect yourself, turn off that nasty air duct over your head.  The guy that sneezes

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