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The people were really nice, so I liked that.” He graduated from Monroe High School and earned an associate’s degree from Darton State College before attending the University of Georgia.
Dr. Nikunj Karsan isn’t a big city kind of a guy. “I did most of my third year medical school rotations in Miami and most of my fourth year rotations in Atlanta, and I didn’t like dealing with all the traffic,” Karsan said. He certainly didn’t have to deal with traffic as a boy. Karsan grew up in an agricultural area in India in a town with only about 200 residents. “Pretty much all the people in town were farmers. For school I went out of town and stayed with my aunt because there was no school where I lived.”
While attending medical school at Ross University, Karsan returned to Albany to complete a month-long subinternship at Phoebe. “It was one of the best rotations that I had in med school,” Karsan said. “I really loved the people in the residency program, especially the staff. That’s one of the main reasons I came here to do my residency. The experience is largely the same with many programs, but the people make the difference here. Everyone is there supporting you, from the top down.”
Since starting his Phoebe Family Medicine Residency training in June, Dr. Karsan has completed inpatient Karsan’s family moved to the United hospitalist, surgery and pediatrics States when he was 14, and they moved rotations. “As a family medicine to Albany when he was in high school. physician, you don’t know what you’re “I enjoyed Albany when we moved here. going to see in the clinic, so it’s good to
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get that wide range of experience,” Karsan said. “I’m looking forward to doing my oby-gyn rotation and getting to deliver babies. If I end up practicing in a small town, that will be very useful.” While Dr. Karsan hopes to be able to return to India regularly to do medical missionary work, he expects to live and practice in south Georgia. “I think my plan as of right now is to do outpatient family medicine somewhere close to where my family is in Georgia. Maybe Albany will be that place. It will have a small town type of environment,” he said. And he believes the Phoebe Family Medicine Residency is preparing him well for that kind of career, meeting the healthcare needs of Georgia families. “The residency program has been everything I expected,” Karsan said. “I kind of knew how the program is run, and it is even a little better than I expected, and I hope it continues to go well.”
Phoebe strives every day to provide southwest Georgians with comprehensive and quality healthcare that allows them to stay close to home for their primary and specialty healthcare needs. We are also committed to cutting-edge medical research. Currently, Phoebe is involved in several clinical trials for various types of cancer in cooperation with a number of respected organizations that sponsor our trials. These trials are monitored by a committee of doctors, nurses and local community leaders called an Institutional Review Board to ensure that participants’ rights are protected and FDA mandates are met.
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burning during urination and vaginal or penile discharge. If caught anally, it can create itching, bleeding and painful bowel movements. If not By Sandee LaMotte, CNN treated, gonorrhea can cause severe and permanent health problems, including long(CNN)In 2016, Americans were infected with term pain and infertility. more than 2 million new cases of gonorrhea, Syphilis is the most serious bacterial STD. Left syphilis and chlamydia, the highest number of untreated, syphilis can affect the brain, heart these sexually transmitted diseases ever and other organs of the body, ultimately leading reported, the Centers for Disease Control and to death. It’s called the “Great Pretender,” Prevention said Tuesday. because the symptoms of syphilis which include “Clearly we need to reverse this disturbing rashes and chancres, or sores, fever, swollen trend,” said Dr. Gail Bolan, director of CDC’s lymph glands, sore throat, headaches, muscles Division of STD Prevention. “The CDC cannot aches and fatigue, mimic other diseases. As the do this alone and we need every community in disease progresses, the symptoms go away, and America to be aware that this risk is out there progress silently to it’s most deadly stage. and help educate their citizens on how to avoid At one point, the United States had all but it.” eliminated syphilis, turning it into a “disease of The agency’s annual Sexually Transmitted the past,” said Bolan. Disease Surveillance Report shows that more “Back in the ‘40s, the advent of penicillin, which than 1.6 million of the new cases were from is quite effective against syphilis, allowed us to chlamydia, 470,000 were from gonorrhea and dramatically reduce cases,” she added. “I nearly 28,000 cases were primary and remember a professor in medical school secondary syphilis, the most infectious stages of explaining what it was to us but then said the disease, according to the CDC. While all of ‘You’ll never see it.’ “ these can be cured by antibiotics, many people However, the new data show that rates of this go undiagnosed and untreated. potentially deadly disease increased almost 18% “If not treated, gonorrhea, chlamydia and between 2015 and 2016, with most of the cases syphilis can have serious consequences, such as in men who have sex with men. There was also infertility, neurological issues, and an increased a rise of the disease among women who pass it risk for HIV,” said Harvey. on to their newborns. There were 628 cases of congenital syphilis among newborns reported in The most common STD is chlamydia. It’s caused 2016, with more than 40 deaths and severe by the bacteria chlamydia trachomatis, and like health complications among the babies who most STDs, is easily transmitted by all forms of survived. sexual activity -- oral, vaginal or anal -- as well “For the first time in many years, we are now as during childbirth. Chlamydia is known as a seeing more cases of babies born with “silent” infection, because most people have no congenital syphilis than babies born with HIV,” symptoms, which means it often goes untreated. said Harvey. “It means that women are not In women, it can ultimately cause pelvic getting access to prenatal care, testing and inflammatory disease that can scar and affect treatment for syphilis. It’s an unconscionable fertility. In men, it can cause testicular pain and situation in America today.” swelling. “This is a completely preventable problem,” Gonorrhea is another bacterial STD that can be agreed Bolan. “Every baby born with syphilis silent, but often displays symptoms such as represents a tragic public health system failure.
All it takes is a simple STD test and antibiotic treatment to prevent this tragedy from occurring.” What happened? Bolan and Harvey both point to funding deficits as a huge part of the reason STDs are on the rise. “Several factors are fueling the STD epidemic,” Harvey said. “Funding cutbacks for prevention, education and healthcare programs, an on-going debate about sex education for young people, with cutbacks in that arena, particularly from this administration, and a rise in social media dating apps have all contributed to the rise.” Another reason is the lack of symptoms for these diseases and a failure of practitioners to educate their patients on what to look for. To counter the problem, the CDC has recently published a provider guide for physicians and is creating a network of clinical training centers for doctors. “The fact that so many of these diseases are asymptomatic, which few tell-tale signals, mean that men and women aren’t getting into their doctor to be tested,” said Bolan. “We need to get the word out that everyone needs a yearly checkup. And we need to re-educate physicians to look for signs of such ‘ancient’ diseases as syphilis.” But an even bigger issue to overcome, Harvey said, is the embarrassment of having an STD. “Unfortunately, STDs carry enormous stigma in this country, and it’s hard for people to come forward for treatment,” said Harvey. “Ironically, HIV is an STD, but we have a very visible community who advocates and works to tell stories about the impact of HIV on people’s lives. We don’t have that going for us with gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia. We need a network of voices that say it’s OK to get help.” Correction: This story has been updated to include primary syphilis among the most infectious stages of the disease, and to include HIV among the STDs required to be reported to the CDC.
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Alzheimer’s disease: hearing that diagnosis for a senior loved one can be life-changing for both the senior and his or her family. While the disease progresses uniquely for each individual, there are some commonalities, such as behavioral issues, that are difficult to manage and can cause family members an unprecedented level of stress. As the disease progresses through the typical stages, here are some of the main concerns that are often experienced with each: § Mild Stage: Wandering, repetitive speech, slowness in completing tasks, problems with tasks such as managing money § Moderate Stage: More pronounced memory, language, and reasoning issues, confusion, difficulty recognizing familiar friends and family and completing multistep tasks § Severe Stage: Loss of communication abilities, full dependence on others So what does this mean for the family members providing care? Sadly, caregiver stress is all too common when caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease, and effectively managing that stress to avoid burnout is crucial. These tips can help:
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WEDNESDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) -- Too few Americans entering life’s final phase are availing themselves of highquality hospice care, despite the fact that Medicare covers the expense, experts say. The situation is only going to become more problematic as the nation’s “baby boomers” reach the end of their expected life spans in coming decades, according to two articles in the July 26 New England Journal of Medicine. “Hospice care is underutilized -- only a third of Americans die under the care of hospice, and hospice care is free,” noted the author of one article, Dr. Gail Gazelle, assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School. “Far too often, patients end up in an ICU, rushed to the emergency room, and they end up dying there, when really they would much rather have died in their own home,” she added. According to Gazelle, many of these patients avoid hospice, because they -- and often their doctors -- believe end-of-life care means they have “failed” in the face of disease. “They often view it as, ‘OK, someone is telling me to crawl into my bed and die,’” she said. In reality, many hospice patients lead full, mobile and high-quality lives for months, Gazelle said. There’s also the misperception that hospice is expensive. Too often, terminal patients don’t realize that Medicare and private insurance cover the full cost of hospice care. And yet those aren’t the only factors keeping terminal patients from the pain management and emotional support that comes with hospice, say Dr. Ingrid Katz, an infectious disease specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Dr. Alexi Wright, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, both in Boston.
dignified, palliative care in the woman’s last days. “There shouldn’t have been a single barrier to her receiving hospice care the night that she needed it,” Wright said. Family and friends in the community worked together to help get Doolin the care she needed, “but her dying experience was a near-disaster,” Wright said. That’s because gaps still exist when it comes to items that Medicare, as well as much private insurance, will reimburse for hospice patients. Intravenous nutrition is one such item, as are chemotherapy drugs that might extend -but not save -- a cancer patient’s life. Entering hospice care, “patients often have to give up medicines that are helping to support them, make them feel better, helping them live longer,” Wright said.
has been severed. Without a doubt, grieving is painful. But it is also necessary. Going forward doesn’t mean forgetting about the loved one who died. Enjoying life again doesn’t imply that the person is no longer missed. Piecing together your shattered emotions doesn’t mean you, somehow, betray a friend or family member. It simply means that your grief has run its course. While no single pathway through grief exists, people do share common responses. In 1969, psychiatrist Elisabeth KüblerRoss introduced what became known as the “five stages of grief,” which represent feelings of those who have faced death and tragedy. 1Based on her years of working with terminal cancer patients, Kübler-Ross proposed the following pattern of phases many people experience:
She believes in an “open access” system where these needs are taken into account. Building such a system might mean the creation of larger hospice organizations, however, so that the cost of expensive therapies could be spread over a larger patient population, Wright said. But Gazelle stressed that hospice continues to meet or exceed the expectations of terminally ill patients and the people who love them. In fact, one recent survey found that 98 percent of family members said they would strongly recommend hospice care to others in need.
In a second journal article, they recounted the story of one Boston-area patient, Joanne Doolin, a 64-year-old mother of three with terminal colon cancer.
Although these are common responses to loss, there is no structure or timetable for the grieving process. That said, Doolin did not choose to enter hospice care. understanding grief and its common She understood that the service was symptoms are helpful when grieving. covered by Medicare, but she also knew Recognizing the difference between that coverage had its limits. As a trauma and depression is also beneficial. prerequisite to enter hospice care, Doolin, Besides understanding how stress can who was unable to eat on her own, would take a toll on us physically, emotionally have been forced to give up intravenous and spiritually, we need to un- derstand feeding, an expensive service for which she Death is inevitable, yet the loss of a close the practical guidelines to ease the would not be reimbursed. “If she had gone process. These include taking care of our friend or family member always showers on hospice care and not received [feeding], bodies, spending time with others and us with a range of emotions. One day we she would’ve died within a couple of days,” reaching out to the church community. might desperately try to avoid the pain, said Wright, a fellow in hematology/ Finally, there will come a time when anxiety and feelings of helplessness we oncology at Dana-Farber. So, Doolin opted feel when a loved one dies. Other days, we someone close to us experiences a to stick with hospital-based chemotherapy significant loss. Knowing how to re- spond feel like life has returned to normal—at and intravenous feeding instead. “Because to a grieving friend is a good first step in least until we realize that our life has she got this nutritional support, she lived acting as a reliable companion. for more than a month and got to see her The death of a loved one is a shattering Despite the gamut of emotions we feel, daughter get married,” said Wright. grieving for a loved one helps us cope and experience with far-reaching implications. As difficult as the loss may be, it is heal. The intense, heart- breaking Doolin’s condition did deteriorate soon possible to move forward with hope for anguish indicates that a deep connection after, however. She and her family found the future. themselves scrambling for some kind of 12 | A (SCNI) Southern Community Newspaper Product | October 2017
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