In the story of Jean Gavrilles and her geriatrician, there's a lesson about frailty. |
The project's core team included a geriatrician, a speech pathologist, a nurse, and an administrator. |
Dr. Snaedal, a geriatrician from Reykjavik in Iceland, says this is happening throughout Europe, in the US and across Asia and Latin America. |
This is a first in Canada. Nowhere else has a City Council been directly involved in funding the hiring of a geriatrician. |
The physician refers him to a geriatrician when he fails to respond to an appropriate course of cholinesterase inhibitor. |
As a geriatrician with more than a decade of direct patient care, I have seen this happen repeatedly. |