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Infections in the elderly how to best treat: Are antibiotics always the answer

Infections in the elderly how to best treat: Are antibiotics always the answer

by KathyKastner | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog, Medical Decisions

‘If you don’t give her antibiotics, she’ll go toxic and die.” Although my 96 year old aunt (pictured at left, between me and my cousin – her daughter) had no symptoms of a bladder infection, a urine test resulting from cloudy pee revealed she indeed had a...
Dr. Michael Fratkin is an enabler

Dr. Michael Fratkin is an enabler

by KathyKastner | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog, conversations with, Medical Decisions

“Most of my healing has little to do with medicine.” “My approach has more to do with being there, listening and helping people with a different approach.” Fratkin, entrepreneur creator of Resolution Care,  is a Palliative doctor whose conversations enable...

Extreme Measures: Dr Jessica Zitter on a Palliative mission

by KathyKastner | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Medical Decisions

“I’m going to call 911: a doctor is torturing a patient.” So said Nurse Pat Murphy to Dr Jessica Zitter  – just as Zitter was about to plunge a syringe into the neck of a patient with a host of health issues. Tho the 911 call wasn’t made, it was a turning point...

A new medical decision PATH for the frail elderly

by KathyKastner | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog, Medical Decisions

Palliative and Therapeutic Harmonization: PATH In plain language PATH means an assessment and treatment recommendation that takes into account what’s going on with us as a whole person, rather than our specific parts.  A worthy goal for all of us, but with particular...

Multiple Medications: too many for too many of us

by KathyKastner | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog, Medical Decisions

By age 65, two thirds of us are taking 5 or more prescription medications a day so reports the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Not included in that total is the number of times a day meds are taken. And it doesn’t include whatever non-prescription...

Organ and Tissue Donation: a learning experience

by KathyKastner | Aug 1, 2015 | Blog, Information, Medical Decisions

Donna Renzetti (left, standing) Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer at West Park Healthcare Centre came in on a Saturday to make sure there were plenty of chairs at the ready for the Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) presentation on organ...
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