Geriatric Medicine : Bangladesh Perspective

Axioms, osteopathic culture, and a perspective from geriatric medicine.

Osteopathic medicine is a rapidly growing discipline in health care that has much to offer the wider biomedical community. A distinction of the osteopathic medical profession is the importance of an overall guiding philosophy. Despite the osteopathic medical profession's success, there remains concern about the profession's ability to maintain its unique identity. Among many factors that have c...

Geriatric medicine.

To expose the medical student to a meaningful, clinically oriented geriatric medical experience. OBJECTIVES To provide the student with a truly Ahands-on@ rotation in the following setting: outpatient geriatrics where assessment on care planning takes place with the medical student providing important information. The inpatient, nursing home and day care experience will be less emphasized durin...

Geriatric Medicine

Geriatric Emergency Medicine

The emergency department (ED) is commonly the point of entry to the medical system for older adults, who present with a wide variety of problems. Although the ED is generally thought of as a location for the diagnosis and treatment of acute medical and surgical emergencies, it may also be the access point for older adults with chronic conditions or social and psychiatric problems. For younger a...

E-Governance: Bangladesh Perspective

Governments, much like businesses, have two major efficiency criteria. First, in the short term it has to reduce the cost of production of the commodities that it produces and second, in the long term, it must also improve the shareholders wealth by increasing its value in the market. In case of governments, both the stakeholders and consumers are the same, the people. And the market also const...