Total Credits: 1 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)
Objectives:
1: Attendees will learn more about the advantages, disadvantages and potential pitfalls of traditional medications used in the treatment of gout.
2: Attendees will learn how to better engage their patients in their own treatment in the management of gout.
3: Attendees will better understand "refractory gout," and when to refer complex patients with multiple morbidities to rheumatology.
This session is accredited for a maximum of 1.0 AOA Category 1-A credits. Credits commensurate with participation in the session will be awarded.
*** Please note this program was a part of the MOA 2024 Midwinter Symposium. You will not want to choose this program if you completed this individual program as part of the MOA 2024 Midwinter Symposium. ***
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| Radis_The calculus of gout (3.35 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Dr. Chuck Radis brings a singular perspective to his writing and is the author of Go by Boat, Island Medicine, Wildflowers of Casco Bay, and John Jenkins: the Mayor of Maine. Following graduation from Bates College, he committed to a career in osteopathic medicine after meeting a D.O. family practice bush pilot in Baja, Mexico.
Throughout his years as both a primary health care physician and later, as a specialist in rheumatology, Dr. Radis has published both in peer-reviewed scientific journals and in the popular press. He has written on empathy and kindness in medicine, the narcotic epidemic, and the logic of expanding Medicare for all Americans. As the founder and medical director for the Maine-African Partnership for Social Justice (www.mapsj.org) he has developed programs in the Kiryandongo United Nations Settlement in Uganda where he partners with refugee groups in innovative public health programs.
For the last 40 years he has taught in the musculoskeletal system at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine, and continues to enjoy his connections with our next generation of osteopathic physicians.
Charles Radis, DO has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
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