#Liver Failure Doctor

[gastroenterologistinpunesblog]

Liver failure is a serious medical condition that requires immediate attention and specialized care. Dr. Vikrant Kale is a renowned Hepatologist & Liver Failure Specialist in Pune with extensive experience in treating various liver conditions, including liver failure. Dr. Kale has helped numerous patients overcome liver-related disorders and regain their health.

[loderlied]

if i could go 2 weeks without some sort of medical emergency that would be great

[groverarms]

A Doctor who got all D's is still a Dr. Why do they all get sent to the rez?

Newest intern at the rez clinic didn't write anything in my chart, renew my prescriptions, requisition my bloodwork, or send my referrals. She did absolutely NOTHING and it took me 2 months to get that appointment.

Damn right I complained. I don't have the money to go see any drug dealers so now I have to spend the next week screaming in bed.

I HATE FUCKING DOCTORS

(except my ndn Dr, who's the best)

[j-august]

Amanda Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

[orcelito]

Actually we r at 6 months now without any major deaths in my life, which is great! That's the longest I've gone without any major deaths since last May! The second longest was 4 months between July and November last year. Wow !

[piierrote]

omg bc i did my blood tests recently i get to find out wether my mild untreated jaundice has worsened!!! exciting times

[spacexfucker]

Honestly I feel like doctor shows are propaganda too bc I have literally never met a doctor that went above and beyond. It's a win if your doctor doesn't give you a verbal dressing down about something you weren't even there for. Disabled people have to search for years sometimes for a doctor to take them seriously and the rest bitch about "doctor shopping" as if that's an indictment of you and not a fucking flaw of theirs that someone would need to hunt for a single person to take them fucking seriously. Grey's Anatomy and House and all those fucking shows are jokes to me. They're good dramas but they may as well be in fantasy lands. Doctors don't fucking care about you if you have anything more complicated than strep most of the time

[martinloren]

Expert Tips for Choosing the Best Liver Surgeon in Bangalore

There are a lot of patients in need of liver surgery due to various conditions, like liver cancer, liver transplantation, other liver-related diseases, etc. Therefore, choosing the best liver surgeon in Bangalore is of great importance. The surgeon's skill, expertise, and clinical approach have a big say in the effective and timely success of the surgical intervention as well as the overall patient outcomes. This complete guide aims to provide expert help to people searching for a top-notch liver surgeon in Bangalore.

Credentials and Qualifications: First, research the beliefs and qualifications of liver surgeons in Bangalore. Search for a surgeon that is certified through the American Board of Surgery in the specialities of hepatobiliary surgery or liver transplantation, showing that he or she has completed the highest quality training and has proved their expertise in their special field. Likewise, ensure that the surgeon has medical schools, fellowship training, and continuing medical education in mind to identify and update himself with the recent innovations in liver surgery. Specialization and Expertise: Search for liver specialists in Bangalore who focus on hepatobiliary surgery or liver transplant and have a long clinical history of treating an extensive variety of liver problems. Liver surgery is the domain of surgeons who have advanced skills that help them to master the technique, improve patient outcomes, and successfully carry out difficult surgeries confidently. Search for surgeons who have done a major number of liver operations and have a good outlook on treating liver diseases, which can lead to success. Hospital Affiliation and Facilities: Note that the hospital where the liver surgeon works and other facilities are in Bangalore. First, pick surgeons associated with the leading hospitals or medical centres furnished with modern surgical theatres, advanced diagnostic systems, and specialists dealing with liver problems. Through modern facilities, human safety and surgical outcomes are optimized, and patients in need of liver surgery receive comprehensive support.

Surgical Experience and Volume: Evaluate the operative experience and the volume of liver surgeries being carried out by the surgeon heading to Bangalore. Search for surgeons who stand out from others because they possess the necessary skills and experience with the high volume of liver surgeries, as well as a proven background in performing complicated procedures that include liver resections, liver transplants, and minimally invasive liver surgeries. The surgeon who has the most surgical experience of all is better prepared and able to resolve complicated cases and make the most remarkable successes for the patients. Patient Reviews and Testimonials: Try getting a connection with the patient who has undergone the surgery and their family members and how they support each other in order to get a better understanding. Seeing the surgeon  up close, hearing, and studying different feedback will form the basis of patient service quality and good pronunciation and communication skills. Online review platforms, hospital websites, and patient advocacy groups are thus important resources that one can use to survey patient feedback and learn more about patients' satisfaction levels. Collaborative Approach and Multidisciplinary Care: Do a background check on liver surgeons in Bangalore with a tendency to care about patients's health jointly with other specialists such as hepatologists, radiologists, oncologists, and nutritionists. The multidisciplinary collaborative method, including the overall assessment, a personalized treatment plan, and the coordinated effort in the post-operative care of liver surgery patients, can be achieved. Figure out surgeons who have the characteristics of teamwork, communication, and togetherness as a team, so that the surgeon can get the best type of results. Accessibility and Availability: Be aware that Bangalore's liver surgeon is the one available to you for consultations, pre-operative evaluations, and post-operative follow-up care, if needed. The option of consulting surgeons who allow scheduling convenience, on-time appointments, and responsive platforms to deal with any patient apprehensions or questions should be considered. Accessibility and availability are considered to be the main factors that help ensure continuous delivery of care and empower patients to manage and carry out treatment throughout the whole disease course.

Innovative Techniques and Technology: Evaluate the surgeon's proficiency in the recent developments in surgical methods and equipment in liver surgery, including minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgery. A surgical team that keeps up with innovations in liver transplant surgery can guarantee patients compassion, a quicker recovery, and better surgical outcomes. An essential part of the discussion should be to ask the surgeon about his or her knowledge and willingness to apply new methods while making sure the patient's diagnosis is right. Clear Communication and Patient Education: Try to find a liver surgeon in Bangalore who sincerely ensures effective communication and enhanced patient education during the treatment process. Surgeons who provide time to explain their findings, possible treatments, and all the risks and benefits clearly and comprehensibly help patients decide on their own treatment. Through effective communication, the surgeon gets trust, confidence, and collaboration from the patient, which results in improved treatment outcomes and satisfactory patient experiences. Trust Your Instincts and Comfort Level: Finally, to sum up, just trust your gut feelings and comfort towards the selection of a good hepatobiliary surgeon in Bangalore. Pick a doctor who you will trust so that you will be comfortable with them and who will root for you. Also, he or she should be there through the whole treatment process. Observe your manners of communication with the surgeon, the amount of empathy and sympathy illustrated, and the level of trust and companionship feelings built up. A positive patient-doctor rapport founded on respect and comprehension is the first step to success as far as liver surgery is concerned.

Selecting the best liver surgeon in Bangalore should be informed by a decision-making process that extensively takes into account features such as qualifications, skills, affiliation to the hospital, patient reviews, locational accessibility, and communication style. After all, I personally recommend Dr. Rajiv Lochan for liver failure treatment in Bangalore. The surgeon is kind and has the skills, experience, and mindset that will enable him to deliver quality treatment without any complications. The right choice of surgeon can make a patient willing to start his treatment with assurance, as he knows he is under the care of the care of a strong and caring expert.

[drsonali1]

[thatpunnyperson]

Friendly reminder for those uninitiated: TB (tuberculosis) requires antiviral drugs and there are really only two main drugs doctors prescribe to treat it. One absolutely destroys your liver while also destroying the TB virus, while the other only slightly damages your liver but also makes all bodily secretions a particularly fluorescent shade of orange. So, yeah, if you want to flirt with death and contract tuberculosis aka The Consumption, be ready to have to take at least a 6 month course of antivirals, while unable to take tylenol or drink alcohol, AND have your urine, snot, tears, saliva, and other secretions all be weirdly orange the entire time.

the anti-quarantine (a method of disease spread management known to be effective for several thousand years atp) hysteria is so bad that I’ve seen people push back on quarantining mandates for people with active TB infections. I really think we’re heading towards extinction atp.

[alshifahealth]

Liver transplant is a complex procedure involving several key steps. First, a suitable donor liver is identified, either from a living or deceased donor. The recipient's diseased liver is then removed during surgery, making room for the new organ. The donor liver is meticulously implanted, and blood vessels and bile ducts are connected to ensure proper function. Immunosuppressant medications are prescribed to prevent rejection. Post-surgery, the patient is closely monitored for complications and signs of rejection. Successful liver transplants can significantly improve the recipient's quality of life and are often the last resort for those with end-stage liver disease.

For more inquiry visit on our site at www.alshifahealthcareservices.com

[seekmed]

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[scientia-rex]

Listen, I know we dunk all the time on people who think they can flawlessly tell who’s trans, but as a doctor looking at bodies is my job. I can tell who has heart failure or liver failure from looking at them. I can identify Parkinson’s from a shuffling walk or hip arthritis from an antalgic gait. I cannot, for the life of me, clock every trans person visually.

You know how I know this? When I started at this job, my new boss told me that a member of the staff transitioned a few years back and everyone did some learning and was supportive (or else). He told me this bc he knows gender care is one of my special clinical interests, right up there with psych and migraines. And when I met my new team I said to myself, ah! There is the trans person. I felt SO bad for her being seated next to the vaguely fascist Republican Ortho guy. I told her repeatedly about how excited I was to have the opportunity to care for trans patients.

Turns out not only is she cis, SHE’S a Republican. I made her uncomfortable! I was like cisgender? With THAT hair???? GIRL YOU ARE SIGNALING THINGS! There are SIGNIFIERS!!!!

So yeah no. People can’t ���just tell.” I ought to have gaydar and I ruined an entire work dinner for that woman.

[chantelbedford]

Time seemed to be moving slower and slower with each moment that passed. She was thankful that she was able to enjoy the conversation with Charlie, which kept her mind distracted. She was even more thankful that she had Charlie's hand to hold, and that he had been given some medication to ease his pain. That was at least giving her a small sense of comfort while they waited for anything. She was hoping for Charlie's sake that it was something minor, that he could be prescribed something simple and go about his day. She wasn't sure if she could handle seeing Charlie down of work over something more serious.

It wasn't until the doctor came in and confirmed Charlie's worries that Chantel felt the pit in her stomach begin to form. This was going to change everything. Charlie was sick, and while Chantel had no part in it, it absolutely broke her heart. Everything she'd known, the life she'd built in Kismet with Charlie was flashing before her eyes and she felt herself squeeze his hand tighter, almost as if to hold on to a little bit of hope that things were going to be okay. But also proving that this wasn't some horrible nightmare. When the doctor left, Chantel didn't move. She couldn't, because if she did she wasn't quite sure what would happen so instead she stood there, squeezing his hand and breathing. It took a few minutes, but once she was able to speak, she let her eyes meet his but only for a second. She could swear if she looked hard enough she could see the sadness forming in them. "Are you scared?" she muttered, not saying anything else. Unable to make eye contact she looked away, fidgeting with his hand as she fought so hard to keep the tears at bay. @charliesxdavis

He looked at her; for a moment, he was worried but loved her even more now. That she was okay with all of this. She had given up her birthday to take him to the doctor. "Still," he was already trying to think of how to make up for all of this. "I mean, they took my piss and my blood, so... they are bound to find something or a bunch of nothing..." he hoped it really was nothing that he was just sore and pulled something. "But I am okay." They did give him something for the pain for now. But while waiting, he did his best to talk to Chantel about some things to get the time to pass.

But the doctor came back in and he had that look on his face so he looked towards Chantel and back at the doctor. "Alright, just.... say it" he said he didn't want to hear all the talk before hand but the doctor did explain what he was seeing but they did need more test to be sure.

The doctor sat in front of them and said he was in the early stages of liver failure.... and explained what he saw and what they could do for now. They needed to do a biopsy to be fully sure, but all signs and tests pointed to it being true, even with Charle's history. He thanked the doctor after they explained the treatment and plans for now and walked out. "Honey... "he looked at Chantel, more worried about her reaction to all of it. He always knew his past was there that he had been hurt before by drinking but he stopped for ten years he thought he was in the clear from damages but he was not, here he was with ab bad liver and the treatment was medication to make it not as bad and being on the transplant list.

@chantelbedford

[wiisagi-maiingan]

I know that ibuprofen is like. A meme now (at least in my disability and chronic pain circles) but please remember that OTC pain killers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen are still medications and there can be severe consequences if you take them too often or exceed the recommended doses.

Acetaminophen overdose is known specifically for liver damage and potential liver failure. Ibuprofen overdose can cause stomach ulcers, gastrointestinal distress and bleeding, high blood pressure, heart failure, and strokes.

These medications aren't something to be afraid of, but you need to be aware of how to use them properly and that includes following the recommended dosage closely and not using them more than necessary. Ibuprofen especially should not be taken for more than a few days in a row. Always check reactions to other medications too; one of the most common causes of acetaminophen overdose is people taking acetaminophen with cold or flu medication that also contains it. If you take ibuprofen and acetaminophen together, like many people do, it's incredibly important to limit how often you do that and pay close attention to how much of each you're taking.

If you're using OTC pain killers to handle chronic pain, speak to a doctor if possible about alternatives. If that ISN'T possible, and I am aware it's not for many many people, please just be careful and don't put yourself into liver failure or a stroke to try getting rid of a migraine.

[ms-demeanor]

IDK that I've ever put it in one post before, but here's the transplant speedrun.

1 - Valentines day 2021, he's admitted to the hospital. We take a pre-hospital selfie then I shave his head and he shaves his beard because he doesn't want to deal with hair at the hospital. Me and his mom drop him off; at that point you can only visit someone as they are actually dying and we're told that he's going to stay in the hospital until he gets a transplant or he dies, and if he's rejected as a transplant recipient he'll receive palliative care in this hospital.

2 - First week of March, they allow patients to have one screened visitor; this is our first visit - I take photos in the hospital to show his mom because at this point he has a pump in his shoulder and it is difficult for him to move his arms to use his phone. He has also been confined to a bed since the week he arrived because he's on the ECMO machine, so he can't walk or move around, though they stand him up every once in a while. At one point one of the ecmo tubes pulls out of his femoral artery, which is Not! Great! He also needed a blood transfusion about every two days at that point, which worried the doctors because it increased his likelihood of rejecting. But he had been approved for transplant at that point!

The first thing he said to me on this visit was "look, I have abs" and then he showed me his abs because it turns out when you're really really dying of heart failure your body begins to eat itself.

3 - Now That's What I Call Jaundice (cardiac cirrhosis is liver failure as a result of heart failure and it's pretty much the big giant neon flashing sign of heart failure that says "hey you're fucking dying" so if you've got heart failure and your bilirubin number is off or the whites of your eyes are yellow please kick up a gigantic stink until they check your liver; large bastard's GP, who is my doctor, who I hate, saw his bloodwork with a very high bilirubin number a month before he was diagnosed with cardiac cirrhosis and wrote it off as a testing fluke fuck that guy)

4 - Don't let the sad face fool you, he's acting pathetic so that his mom will stop yelling about the fact that I'm bringing him cookies. He's allowed to have cookies. At that point he weighed 98kg and was outsourcing his heartbeat, he was allowed to eat whatever he wanted. (have i mentioned that I was moving us from Vegas to LA at this time? I was bringing him cookies because I'd baked hundreds of peanut butter cookies and other cookies to use up the flour, sugar, and peanut butter in the vegas house)

5 - Mid-march, he's got a match! He called me when I was in Vegas filling up the truck with another load and I drove right back and to the hospital. Once he went in for surgery I drove to his mom's house and crashed, then woke up and drove to our storage unit and unpacked the truck while I waited to hear from the doctors. I was unloading a bookcase when I got the call. (There wasn't any point in waiting alone in the hospital for sixteen hours; either he was going to make it or he wasn't and someone was going to have to unload the truck at some point. People have been weird about this, like I should have been sitting at his side all the time, but there was a two-hour daily limit for most visits and look i have sat in a waiting room while this dude had a thirteen hour surgery i do not need a repeat of that experience without the soothing balm of nicotine getting me through it; so unloading a truck it was)

6 - Two days after surgery and kind of mad about it. His chest hurt a lot (obviously) but, like, a lot a lot because they'd had to open him up for the bypass just two years earlier.

7 - First walk outside of his room after transplant in early April; he needed a LOT of PT because of how much muscle he'd lost. He lost sixty pounds in the hospital before the surgery, and only gained back about twenty while he was in there.

8 - A visit from the tiny doggo

9 - I come to visit and I've got a new phone with a portrait mode so he steals it and takes stupid pictures for a few minutes. Dude is bored and restless; this is in late april and he's feeling well enough to be moody. ETA: There is a jar of pickles in front of him because he'd been fluid limited for a long time and his salt levels were off and when he got to the hospital they were like "you need electrolytes and a lot of salt" and he was like "sweetheart can you please please please bring me delicious salty things" so I was bringing him jars of pickled mushrooms and garlic stuffed olives and just a huge number of pickles that he kept trying to share with the nurses. "Alli brought the mushrooms again; would you like a pickled mushroom? I have fancy toothpicks to share them with!"

10 - He comes home for the first time in early May; he ends up getting readmitted two more times because of complications before finally being released in early July. ETA: The second time he got readmitted it was for something that he wasn't at all worried about but that they needed to monitor for a couple weeks so he was *SO BORED* and actually feeling pretty okay; so at one point when I was leaving the parking garage at 8pm my car wouldn't start, I did some troubleshooting with the manual and the internet and didn't figure it out, so I called him and he tried to troubleshoot over the phone and got frustrated and was begging his nurses to let him come out to the parking structure to work on my car (they refused) - I ended up getting a tow and fixing it when I replaced the battery terminals.

Photos are all posted with his permission.

Also I dyed my hair purple between photos one and two because it's his favorite color. I also bought a blue dress, red tights, and yellow shoes to wear to visit him because he always teases me for wearing so much black.

I just love him a lot. It was a hard couple years there, but things are getting better.