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How an Outpatient Pharmacy Enhances Your Healthcare

What is the biggest reason to use a pharmacist that works with a hospital? Doing so directly affects the quality of care both provided and received, allowing for true comprehensive healthcare. As an outpatient hospital pharmacist, I have a unique advantage: From the time a patient visits a hospital to the time they go home, I help doctors provide continued care.

When to See a Urologist

It's not always very easy to decide if you need to see a urologist, a gynecologist or a family physician. Finding out which doctor to see for your needs often proves difficult, particularly when there is some overlap between the different care they provide.

On the Spiritual Care Team, No 2 Days Are the Same

To be a chaplain at Orlando Health is to have a job filled with amazing experiences almost every day. One of the most memorable experiences I've ever had as a chaplain was when I got to spend time with a Holocaust survivor during the final few weeks of her life. She told me stories about her experience in concentration camps, stories she had never shared with her family or close friends because she felt it would be a burden. As she was facing the end of her life, however, she told me she felt the need to tell someone.

How Pregnancy Affects Your Teeth (and What to Do About It)

During pregnancy, you expect changes in your body. But did you know changes can occur in your mouth as well?

Lifestyle Changes Can Help Your Atherosclerosis

Atherosclerosis, also known as hardening of the arteries, is a condition where the arteries harden and then narrow due to a buildup of fat and cholesterol. Blood cannot travel through the vessels as easily, which can lead to serious problems such as strokes, heart attacks, amputation and even death. 

Building Bridges Between EMS and ER Team Helps Patients

When someone has a medical emergency and can’t get to the hospital on their own, an ambulance with a paramedic accompanies them, providing medical treatment until the person is under the care of the emergency room staff. But what happens when that ambulance rolls up to the ER entrance?

I Have Cancer. Can I Still Have an Active Lifestyle?

A cancer diagnosis and treatment can wreak havoc on your life, leading to exhaustion, stress and depression. But that doesn’t mean you need to surrender your active lifestyle. In fact, there are many reasons why you shouldn’t.

Transcatheter Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) Closure

Nuclear Pharmacological Stress Test

This imaging test measures heart function at rest and under medication-induced stress to help identify any blockage in arteries of the heart.

Nuclear Exercise Stress Test

Images of safe, radioactive tracers show blood flow to the heart muscle during exercise and rest to help find any blockage in arteries of the heart.