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Manoj Jain MD

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    • Medicine and Spirituality Research
    • Nonviolence

Coordinated Care Can Reduce the Spread of Resistant Infections – Huffington Post

by Dr. Manoj Jain | Aug 24, 2015 | Huffington Post

It was a week into my elderly patient’s hospital admission when he began to have fever and profuse diarrhea, some 10-12 bowel movement a day. The diagnosis was not hard to make: a stool test showed he had C difficile. Another patient, a thin women in her late...

Education can Empower in Fighting Ebola – Commercial Appeal

by Dr. Manoj Jain | Aug 18, 2014 | Commercial Appeal

    If an ill patient, who unexpectedly has Ebola, landed in Memphis, it is likely that my partner or I would see him. We work as infectious disease doctors at the hospital closest to the airport. The Ebola patient would present with fever, nausea and...

Doctors struggling over role in treating childhood obesity – Commercial Appeal

by Dr. Manoj Jain | Feb 16, 2014 | Commercial Appeal

Lying in a hospital bed, my seriously obese patient can barely see her swollen and odorous right foot over her abdominal fat. The foot is soon to be amputated, the result of an untreatable infection exacerbated by diabetes and kidney failure, which developed in part...

Sinusitis among most mistreated illnesses – Commercial Appeal

by Dr. Manoj Jain | Feb 9, 2014 | Commercial Appeal

Over the past month my daughter, my aunt, my father-in-law and sister-in-law all have been taking antibiotics for a sinus or an upper respiratory infection. As the infectious disease doctor in the family, I feel partly responsible for all this. For my teenage daughter...

Flu complications come on fast – Vaccine can save time, money, lives – Tennessean

by Dr. Manoj Jain | Jan 17, 2014 | Tennessean

The night before I was leaving for a three-week medical mission trip, I was called urgently to the ICU to see a patient I’ll call Rachel, a previously healthy woman in her late 40s, slightly overweight. She had started a new job as a customer service agent. Rachel was...
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