Garlic and Statin Mock Patient Counseling – For our CAM project, we wanted to simulate a counseling session for a patient looking to use garlic along with their simvastatin based on our research. Resea…

 

Genetic Counseling: Assessing Cancer Risk

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Sarah Keilman, MS, CGC, is a certified genetic counselor. In her role at Mercy Health Lacks Cancer Center, she assesses a patient's risk of cancer through risk assessment and genetic testing. "With breast cancer, most people are familiar and concerned …
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Obesity ups breast reconstruction risks

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… reconstruction, with the hope that it will allow practicing surgeons an opportunity to better tailor pre-operative risk counseling and improve patient selection," explained the study's lead author, Dr John Fischer, of the Hospital of the University …
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BCHD guides the Beach Cities through America's healthcare overhaul

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These are the people BCHD had in mind when it applied to become a certified enrollment site – people like one of Santora's patients, an unemployed 27-year-old student who recently used the BCHD counseling service to sign up for healthcare coverage that …
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