There’s no other assessment as popular as the PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire 9) and the GAD-7 (Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7). These are not just popular among psychologists and therapists but even the general population are familiar with these assessments. And I know, for a fact, that many doctors just know ONLY about the PHQ-9 and …
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Documentation is an age-old idea which has existed since the existence of language. One of the use-cases of documentation has been to preserve history. In medical science, one thing common to all treatments is patient history. Patient history ranges from symptoms, diagnosis, intervention, medication and vital parameters etc. With such diverse information, it becomes helpful …
Diversity is beautiful. But why does nature create each one of us so unique? We look different, we feel differently, we think differently, we behave differently and so on. In fact, no two of us have the same fingerprints! Why wouldn’t nature create all of us the same – something of “a standardised homo-sapien”? The …