Tuesday, September 06, 2005

The Water Cooler, a Font of Good Medicine - New York Times

The Water Cooler, a Font of Good Medicine - New York Times: "No longer is a well patient with a sick gallbladder of medical interest for her gallbladder alone. With doctors increasingly exhorted to care for the whole patient, not just the disease, that gallbladder is often examined in its full context, and all social information - what might be considered gossip in any other context - becomes relevant."

ThePittsburghChannel.com - Health - Marilyn Brooks Investigates Gallbladder Pain

ThePittsburghChannel.com - Health - Marilyn Brooks Investigates Gallbladder Pain: "Every year hundreds of thousands of Americans suffer the pain of what they think are heart attacks.
Many later find out it's not their heart at all, but their gallbladder.
The truth of the matter is that the symptoms are so similar you can't tell.
But doctors can, after they rule out the possibility of something more life-threatening"

Gallstones in children

Health 24 - Diet, Eating throughout life: "Most people would not believe that children can develop gallstones (also a disease that was always classified as a disease of the over-40s), but more and more obese children are being treated for gallstones."