Word: pulmonologist
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...addicted to Vicodin, he still isn’t as old or insane as he would need to be to have completed so many specialty courses in medical school. A ripe, obnoxiously saucy bachelor at middle age, House is somehow a cardiologist, epidemiologist, radiologist, neurologist, orthopedic surgeon, dermatologist, endocrinologist, pulmonologist, gynecologist, and psychiatrist, in addition to being versed in a few other specialties, sprinkled in for good measure. There is no other way to put it; the show is completely unrealistic. Noah Wyle may be a pretty boy, but after years of watching television, I would much rather have...
...blessing to many in his community. It is also, unfortunately, soon to vanish from American medicine. Even our general practice physicians - who don't do procedures like surgeons do - are fast changing from prescribing docs to "medical distributors": farming out the problems they find to specialists. (Pneumonia? See the pulmonologist. Tonsillitis? Ear, nose and throat doctor...
...near-fatal” condition—Mayer lost part of his lung during that period—he looks at his childhood of hospital visits and medical tests in a positive light, saying that it has spurred his interest in a medical career, possibly as a pulmonologist...
...When cells are exposed to toxic substances for prolonged periods, they tend to become inflamed and swollen. In COPD, cells lining the lungs swell to a point at which they restrict the flow of air. "It's like a sunburn of the air passages," says Dr. Thomas Petty, a pulmonologist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and at Chicago's Rush University. Swelling and inflammation trigger bronchiospasm, a clenching of the muscles surrounding the air passages, further choking off the oxygen supply. Inadequate oxygen in turn damages the alveoli, the sacs of cells that transfer oxygen...
Soon after he got the two-month extension of his group's insurance, Sosenko thought he might have found a more permanent solution, courtesy of the local Provena Saint Joseph Hospital. Surgeons like to have a pulmonologist standing by when they perform a complicated procedure like open heart surgery. So the hospital offered to hire Sosenko and his colleagues as staff physicians and cover them under its liability insurance. However, Provena's insurance company wouldn't cover the doctors if they continued to see patients outside the hospital, even part time. "Maybe it was silly to take the two-month...