Louis J. Riccardo is a family physician.
I have nothing but praise for online physician platforms, like KevinMD. Mental health has been a major issue among physicians, including me, and secrecy and bottling up these depressive feelings tends to worsen depression. Being open and writing my heart out is a coping mechanism and is one of the coping mechanisms (in addition to altruism) that has prevented me from relapsing and going back to my life of Read more…
The COVID pandemic has me confused with various state health departments, the CDC, the WHO, and hospitals repeatedly changing mask guidelines/mask requirements. Furthermore, I’ve had many patients complain about anxiety over both the pandemic and about masks and vaccines and their loss of autonomy in terms of being required to wear masks and/or take vaccines to enter buildings and keep their jobs respectively. And this is even though I keep …
As a small town-trained osteopathic hospitalist, I have seen that some people may mistakenly believe that boards scores are important. But in reality, bedside manner is a lot more important. I’ve seen cases where nurse practitioners and physician assistants working as hospitalists receive far better patient survey reviews than tertiary care center trained cardiologists who passed the boards in the first attempt. Nurse practitioners are one of the fastest-growing professions, …
Substance abuse should be a medical problem, not a legal or moral problem. If it is considered a legal and moral problem, drug abusers may delay or refuse medical help. In my case, I was battling severe bipolar depression, and I was using cannabis and ecstasy to self-medicate my depression. Due to fear of legal problems and being considered a moral failure, I refused to get help until I was …
I am a board-certified osteopathic family physician who worked most of my career as a hospitalist. I am thankful to my university, family medicine program, and the state boards for being open-minded and future-minded and admitting and licensing me, respectively.
I was arrested and convicted of multiple counts of trafficking and abusing cannabis and MDMA (including using minors as agents in their sales) and multiple arrests for driving on suspended and …
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