This week Dr. Leighan Talton and Dr. Ira Pearlstine welcome special guest Susan Dermarkarian, a registered dietician nutritionist with more than 30 years experience. Thanksgiving is right around the corner, so what better time to try and find some ways to tighten our belt in preparation of the big feast? Plus, our weekly rant this week: Don’t Confuse Your Google Search For My Medical Degree.
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“Don’t confuse your Google search with my medical degree” is a popular saying these days from my physician colleagues. (The mark of popular saying in 2019 is whether or not its expressed as a “meme”, and this one is a favorite meme among doctors.) What we are talking about is the new-ish phenomenon of patients looking up issues/questions/symptoms on the internet. The problem is not with patients wanting to be educated prior to speaking to an expert. In fact, the world […]
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This week, Dr. Ira Pearlstine and Dr. Leighan Talton welcome special guest Dr. James Vopal into the studio to discuss breast cancer. What are the different types of breast cancer? What’s a hormone receptor? 3D vs 2D mammograms.
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In January 2016, Harvard published results from a study assessing the difference in care between male and female physicians. One of the key questions addressed in the study was: Do patient outcomes differ between those treated by male and female physicians? Using a national sample of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries, researchers found that patients who receive care from female general internists have lower 30-day mortality and readmission rates than do patients cared for by male internists. These findings suggest that the differences […]
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Many of my patients ask, “What is a DO?” My medical degree is from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, which makes me a D.O. not an M.D. When people take notice of my degree, they often notice that many long-standing community physicians in the area, of all specialties, are also D.O.s. The main difference between a D.O. and an M.D. is the medical school training. D.O. programs include an area of study known as Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. This is […]
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This week, Dr. Ira Pearlstine and Dr. Leighan Talton have a conversation about health insurance and Medicare Open Enrollment.
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The Docs welcome special guest, hand surgeon Dr. Rob Forster!
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Originally published in the iCare Palm City Community Magazine Hi Dr. Talton, please give us a brief introduction about yourself, and your family. My name is Leighan Talton, DO. I have been married 10 years to my husband, Jat, and we have 3 kids and a dog. Matthew and Natalie are 4 yo twins, Patrick is 2, and our pitbull puppy, Bailey, is 5 months. We live in Palm City, and my kids attend Temple Beit Hayam preschool. When and […]
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Excerpt from “The Native Physician”, Indian River Magazine, Fall 2015 Edition BY GREG GARDNER | PHOTO BY GREG GARDNER Dr. Leighan Howard-Talton has come full circle by returning to Stuart and working for the hospital where she and her parents were born — Martin Health System. Her parents, Tracy and Francie Howard, were brought into the world by the legendary Dr. Julian Parker, who delivered almost all of the children born in Stuart for many years. According to Francie Howard, […]
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