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Today’s Talk Topic: Why Medical Mondays?

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Here at WVFC we have a long tradition of Medical Mondays, posts overseen by Dr. Pat Allen on the entire range of medical issues, concerns, and best practices. It turns out we have been even wiser than we thought in our scheduling.

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On Mammograms and Their Value: A Breast Surgeon Weighs In

By Dr. Elisa Rush Port

When it comes to recommending yearly mammograms and affirming that mammograms save lives, let’s stop getting hung up on technicalities. Let’s stop re-crunching the numbers until they give us a different answer, and accept what the data demonstrates: From age 40—not age 50—yearly mammograms save lives.

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Notes from a Neurologist: Concussions Are Not Just for Athletes

By Joseph Safdieh, M.D.

Many patients report that they feel as if they are “walking in a fog”—they feel “slower,” and concepts seem harder to grasp. Some patients do not even recall a head injury, because the trauma may have induced a transient amnesia for the event.

General Medical · Health

A Concussionary Tale

By Shelley Singer

On the bus, a powerful sense of being out of whack in my head suddenly overtook me. It was as if the plates in my skull had slipped several notches—like the feeling telegraphed when a cartoon character gets slammed on the head by a two-by-four, and you see squiggles and exclamation points and pound signs revolving in the air above him. The balloon would have read, “Boing!”

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Today’s Talk Topic: Why Medical Mondays?

On Mammograms and Their Value: A Breast Surgeon Weighs In

Notes from a Neurologist: Concussions Are Not Just for Athletes

A Concussionary Tale

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