cancer – MD Update

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BiFocal: The Dual Preoccupations of the COVID Era Pulmonologist

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Tim Corkran acute respiratory issue, advocate of early screen, bifocal attention, biopsy, bronchoscopy, cancer, Care medicine, career-long focus, cat scan, chi, chi saint, clot, colon, COVID, COVID-19, critical Care medicine, detection, develop clarity, develop clarity of the dynamics of long COVID-19, distant region, distant region of the lung, dual preoccupation of the COVID era, early screen, eastern half of the commonwealth, Eliseo, Eliseo colon, emphysema, endo-bronchial, evolve field of long COVID, FDA, gas trap, high risk, high-risk patient, hyperinflation, illness, image001 endo-bronchial valve, joined chi saint, Joseph, Joseph medical group, lesion, long COVID, long COVID-19, lung, lung cancer, native of Puerto Rico, new set of preoccupation, nodule, pandemic, patient population, point of concern, practice leader, pre-pandemic, pre-pandemic practice, pulmonologist, pulmonologists, scan, screen, severe emphysema, severe respiratory illness, sufferer of severe respiratory illness, suite of symptom, symptom, time of COVID-19, valve

LEXINGTON As a pulmonologist in the time of COVID-19, Eliseo Colon, MD, has had a busy two years. The practice

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Bringing Pioneering Procedures to Kentucky

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Donna Ison abnormal liver test, advanced procedure, advanced therapeutic endoscopy, age 45, Alexandra Rogers Nathan Liu, bile, bile duct, bowel, camera visualization, camera visualization of lesion, cancer, colon, colon cancer, colonoscopies, colonoscopy, complex condition, complicated colon polyp, curative resection, duct, Emily Billingsly, endoscopic, endoscopic procedure, endoscopic submucosal dissection, endoscopic therapy, endoscopy, ERCP, ESD, esophagus, extensive higher-risk polyp, field of gastroenterology, full range of gastrointestinal cancer, gastroenterologist, gastroenterologist arsenal, gastroenterologists, gastroenterology, gastrointestinal cancer, GI, GI wall, high-risk procedure, higher-risk polyp, image001 photography, intermittent right upper quadrant pain, interventional gastroenterologist, invasive surgery, Kawasaki 's disease, late therapeutic agent, Liu, Louisville, medical movement, myotomy, Nathan Liu, natural GI wall, new tool, obesity, ongoing treatment, pancreatography, pediatric surgeon, Peter Draganov, pioneer procedure, polyp, pre-oral, pre-oral endoscopic myotomy, procedure, quadrant pain, quick diagnosis, remove stone, required open surgery, retrograde pancreatography, revolutionary endoscopic therapy, screen colonoscopies, single layer of the colon, small bowel, submucosal, submucosal fellowship, surgery, suture, third-space endoscopy, three year fellowship, university of Florida, UofL, UofL health

LOUISVILLE In the field of gastroenterology, innovations in endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery have led to much improved results and

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News – Feb 2022

February 1, 2022April 19, 2022 MD-Update Staff A., advanced practice provider, American medical group association, Aqeel Mandviwala, Bardstown Flaget memorial hospital, Berea, breast, breast cancer, cancer, Carmel 's list, Carmel 's list of accomplishment, Carmel Jones, Cecil, central Kentucky, CEO Anthony Houston, certified medical practice executive, chi, chi saint, clinic, COVID-19, COVID-19 patient, davenport, delta surge, Donny Hardy, Dr. Hardy, finance leadership role, Flaget, Flaget memorial hospital, founder of hope scarf, graduate of Transylvania university, group association, group management association, growth of a high perform physician enterprise, health care career, high perform physician enterprise, high quality physician, hope scarf, image002 photo, image003 photo, image004 photo, John Abe, Jon Myers, Jones, Joseph, Joseph Berea, Joseph health, Joseph London, Joseph medical foundation, Joseph medical group, Kentucky, Lara, leadless, leadless pacemaker, Lexington, Lexington Carmel Jones, Lexington clinic, Mandviwala, Marymount hospital, medical group, medical group management association, member of the medical group management association, Michael T., native of London, News, overall physician, overall physician of the year, pacemaker, photo, physician, physician enterprise, physician of the year, practice executive, practice provider, president of chi saint, president of the chi saint, provider, Pulmonology, quality physician, recent delta surge, Robert A. davenport, scarf, Shailendra Chopra, T, traditional pacemaker, wonderful team

Jones Named President of CHI Saint Joseph Medical Group LEXINGTON Carmel Jones has been appointed president of the CHI Saint

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Critical Delays: The Importance of Meeting the Standard of Care for Cancer Diagnosis

December 1, 2021February 15, 2022 Andrew Desimone, Esq additional pain, breach, breach of the standard of care, cancer, cancer screen program, causation, causation defense, causation standard, chance, common lawsuit, competent physician, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 patient, critical delay, damage exposure, defend delay, defendant physician, delay, delayed diagnosis, diagnosis, diagnosis case, diagnosis of cancer, diagnosis of cancer case, diminished chance, diminished chance of survival, expert testimony, general negligence claim, healthcare, healthcare professional, hospital redirect resource, injury, jury, Kentucky, legal causation standard, levels.1, lost chance, lost chance of survival, malpractice, malpractice case, malpractice defense, medical malpractice case, medical malpractice defense, medical probability, multiple hospitalization, necessary expert proof, negligence, NIH find show, oncology, oncology service, oppose expert, outcome, pandemic, patient-physician, patient-physician relationship, physician, physician breach, physician breach of the standard of care, pre-pandemic, pre-pandemic levels.1, probability, provider, reasonable degree, reasonable degree of medical probability, reasonable degree of probability, reduction of the odds of recovery, requirement of an expert witness, routine cancer screen, significant damage exposure, site surgery, standard of care, subset of a general negligence claim, summary dismissal of the lawsuit, surgery, survivability, survival, testimony, wrong site surgery

One of the most common lawsuits in medical malpractice defense is a delay in diagnosis of cancer. According to the

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News – Dec 2021

December 1, 2021December 10, 2021 MD-Update Staff $36, 36 year healthcare veteran, 373-bed, 434-bed, 434-bed hospital, Agarwala, American college, American pathologist, Antonio Lopez, APRN, baptist health, breast, breed, Brown, brown cancer center, cancer, Care, central Kentucky, chi, chi saint, chief operate officer, Chris Roty, clinic, day-to-day leadership, diagnostics, diagnostics center, Dunlap, Emily Volk, family medicine, FCAP, fellowship, healthcare veteran, Hejazi, hospital 's leadership, ICU, image001 photo, inpatient, internal medicine, J., Jessamine, Joseph, Joseph health, Joseph medical group, Kamran Hejazi Kenari, Kentucky, Kiltinen, Kyaw, LA Grange, laboratory medicine, leadership, Leslye Jones, Lexington, Lexington clinic, Louisville, Louisville school, lung, lung cancer, lung disease, management of the 434-bed hospital, Matt Bailey, medical degree, medicine, Neal Dunlap, neck, neck cancer, Nessa Timoney, News, nurse, nurse practitioner, oncology, osteopathic medicine, Paducah, Paducah hospital, pathologist, pathology, pediatrics, photo, physician, post-graduate, president of baptist health, preventative, provider, Pulmonology, radiation, radiation oncology, radiology, residency, Roty, Roty 's leadership, S., Sanjay Agarwala, Siddiqui, Staten, Tennessee, treatment of lung, UofL, UofL health, Valerie, Valerie breed, vice president, Volk

Roty Named Chief Operating Officer at Baptist Health Lexington LEXINGTON After serving as president of Baptist Health Paducah, Chris Roty

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Doing My Part

December 1, 2021February 15, 2022 Mac Stone 35-year-old collection, 35-year-old collection of greasy steel part, balance of nutrient, beat cancer, Bernie, Bernies, blitzkrieg of drug, blood-sucking mosquito, blood-sucking mosquito wear scrub, cancer, chair of the U.S. department of agriculture, Chevy, Chevy pick-up truck, Chevy truck, clean underwear, colonoscopies, diet-related, diet-related disease complication, Elmwood stock farm, executive market director, farm crew, flock of heritage breed, food farm, food farmer, Georgetown My, greasy steel part, image001 Mac, image001 Mac stone, Kentucky department of agriculture, lifelong to-do list, lifetime of stuff, load of laundry, Mac stone, Markey, Markey cancer center, national organic standard board, organic turkey, plumb project, pretty green right, rebuilt engine, regenerative organic food farm, S., self-inflicted trauma, stuff, tasty food, team of Bernies, team of employee, teary eye, truck, tumor team, turkey, type of dye, unexpected career change, valve job, veggies, veggies come, whew

GEORGETOWN My ’84 Chevy pick-up truck and I had similar experiences of late. We both went to the shop for

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Parlaying Personal Experience into Patient Care

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Donna Ison aesthetic surgery of the breast, alumnus fellow, board-certified, breast, breast cancer, breast reconstruction, breast reconstruction keep, breast reconstruction patient, cancer, care of the cancer, carpal tunnel, chief year, chief year of plastic surgery residency, Christine, Christine M. Kleinert institute fellowship, clinical professor, clinical professor of hand surgery, current president, current president of the Ohio valley society of plastic surgeon, expander, fat graft, fellow, fellowship, general surgeon, Gil Dunn Michelle Palazzo, good plan, graft, hand surgery, Harold Kleinert, image001 photo, incision, international alumnus fellow, Kentucky society, Kentucky society of plastic surgeon, Kleinert, Kutz, Louisville, LOUISVILLE/ new Albany, M., M. Kleinert, M. Kleinert institute fellowship, mastectomy, Michelle Palazzo, microsurgery, Ohio valley society, oncologist, Palazzo, patient care, plastic surgeon, plastic surgery residency, program director, realm of breast reconstruction, reconstruction, reconstructive surgery, Scott spear, St. Louis university, subsequent mastectomy, surgeon, surgery, surgery residency, tissue, top breast, university of Louisville

LOUISVILLE/ NEW ALBANY, IN Few physicians can say they have been both surgeon and patient for the same procedure. However,

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Making the Impossible Possible

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Tim Corkran associate professor, basic science colleague, bedside, bedside approach, blood cell, brand-new drug, Brown, brown cancer center, Brown cancer center 's Rebecca Redman, cancer, cancer cell, cancer patient, cancer treatment, care of cancer patient, checkpoint, checkpoint inhibitor, chemotherapy, chief administrative officer of UofL health, clinic, clinical research, clinical trial, clinical trial office, combination of exist drug, dedicated research coordinator, deputy director, deputy director of clinical research, devoted team, diagnosis, dietician, director of medical oncology service, ENT physician, entire team of dedicated research coordinator, first-time study, first-time study of the agent, fortuitous work study placement, function life, function treatment, gland cancer, HPV case, image001 photo, image002 photo, immune system, immunotherapy, informed bench, inhibitor, internal medicine residency, Jason Chesney, Kentuckian, lab, lab practice, life-giving tissue, lymphocyte, medical oncologist, medical oncology fellowship, medical oncology service, medicine, medicine residency, mix of lab work, multidisciplinary clinic, neck, neck cancer, neck cancer patient, neck cancer treatment, neck patient, oncologist, oncologist 's lab, oncology, oncology fellowship, oncology service, pediatric oncologist 's lab, phase 1, phase 1 trial, PhD, photo, possibility of a home run, quality of life-giving tissue, radiation, Rebecca Redman, Redman, Redman 's research, research coordinator, salivary gland cancer, science colleague, see patient, smart treatment, thoughtful way, throat cancer issue, tissue, treatment of head, trial offer two, trial offer two level, trial offer two level of hope, trial office, tumor, tumor infiltrate lymphocyte, UofL, UofL health, UofL school, UofL school of medicine, work study placement

LOUISVILLE The treatment of head and neck cancers has long had the potential to damage sensitive, quality of life-giving tissues.

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Offering Options and Elevating Education

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 Donna Ison anatomical representation, anatomical representation of the heart, Andrea Colton, artery, benign breast disease, big thing, breast, breast cancer, breast disease, breast surgery, breast tissue, cancer, church-goer, clinic, Colton, Colton care, Conemaugh memorial medical center, cosmetic result, Einstein medical center, fellow church-goer, five year general surgery residency, general surgery internship, Goldilocks, good outcome, grandpa, grandpa 's Open-Heart surgery, hand-drawn illustration, hidden scar-trained surgeon, image001 photo, incision, keep grandpa, Lexington, Lexington clinic, mammogram, mastectomy, master 's of public health, microchip, nipple spare mastectomy, offer option, oncologist, oncologist use compassion, oncoplastic, oncoplastic technique, open heart surgery, open-heart, option, outcome, partial mastectomy, patient protocol, Patti Anne Stefanick, Paul Martin Andrea Colton, person help, public health, radio-frequency, reconstruction, scar-trained surgeon, skin spare mastectomy, Stefanick, subcutaneous tissue, surgeon, surgery, surgery internship, surgery residency, surgical oncologist, surgical oncologist use compassion, surgical oncology, tissue

LEXINGTON In the third grade, Andrea Colton, MD, MPH, wrote a book titled “My Grandpa’s Open-Heart Surgery,” chronicling the observations

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The Evolution of Gynecological Cancer Care

October 1, 2021December 10, 2021 MD-Update Staff ablation, abnormal bleed, Alexandra Rogers Margarita Terrassa, all-female practice, American cultural mainstream, bladder, bleed, board-certified, Botox, breast, breast cancer, cancer, CDC, cervical cancer, cervical cancer awareness, comprehensive care, Denise Kirkham, diagnosis, educational act, endometrial, endometrial ablation, evolution of gynecological cancer, female cancer, Gil Dunn, gynecological care, gynecology, happy Rockefeller, HPV, HPV vaccine, hysteroscopy, image001 photo, image002 photo, in-house, in-office, in-office service, in-office surgery, in-office surgery suite, incontinence, Jamie Baldwin, Kim Aldridge, l-r, large surgery suite, Louisville, Louisville obstetrics, majority of doctor, mammogram screen, Margarita Terrassa, new sign of the time, OB-GYN generalist, OB-GYN practice, OB/ GYN, obstetrics, ovulation, pain, pap, pap smear, patient demand, Patient-Oriented, pelvic pain, phase of comprehensive care, physician, ponce, ponce school, ponce school of medicine, procedure, procedure suite, recognizable symbol promote mammogram screen, smear, Specialty-Focused, state-of-the-art equipment, suite, surgeon, surgery, surgical procedure, surgical solution, surgical suite, teal-colored, teal-colored ribbon, Terrassa, tissue, treatment of abnormal pap smear, Tulane university hospital, ultrasound, unique female perspective, urinary incontinence, uterus, vaccination, vaccine, wait room of the calm, well-known woman, woman enter medical school, woman provider

LOUISVILLE The years 1971-1972 were pivotal for cancer treatment for women in the U.S. Three prominent, well-known women, Betty Ford,

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