If your physician has referred you to The Oregon Clinic Gastroenterology Department located at 1111 NE 99th Ave. Portland, Oregon, I urge you to read this review. My primary care physician referred me to the Gastroenterology Clinic because of severe abdominal pain. She called The Oregon Clinic three times before she finally got a call ...
The prospect of having a CAT scan can be a scary thing, depending on the reasons the doctors feel one is necessary. The CAT scan itself is a relatively simple procedure. You may have seen one performed on television or in movies; a scene depicting a man or woman being slowly guided into a large ...
What is Liver Flushing? Liver flushing, sometimes known as gallbladder flushing or liver cleansing, involves drinking a concoction of various liquids, not limited to but including: Epsom salts, grapefruit juice, olive oil, etc. Liver flushing is a wonderful way to improve your health. There is no pain involved, and is a very cheap and easy ...
As a practicing internal medicine physician working in the ICU, I am writing several articles based on my real life experience taking care of patients with pneumonia. As I stated in my other article, the signs, symptoms and diagnosis of pneumonia depends on the unique characteristics of the patient. In this article, I will be ...
When my mother went to the ER the second time during a bout with pneumonia (she had vomited and complained of faintness and had clammy skin), a CT scan was ordered due to an elevated D-dimer (what’s this?). The ER doctor said that the CAT scan showed that the pneumonia was gone (though my mother ...
Endometriosis, medically speaking, is a benign form of cancer which attacks the uterus and female reproductive organs. When diagnosed with Endometriosis, many patients are told the condition is painful, but not life threatening. What if that was all a lie? While endometriosis, when isolated in reproductive organs, is not life threatening, what happens when this ...
A CT (computed tomography) scan or “cat scan” as they used to be called, is one of several diagnostic procedures that helps give doctors a better idea of what is going on inside a patient’s body. Unlike X-rays, which only take one image of the body, CT scans take a series of images. Each image ...
