Ivanhoe's First to Know for 2/27/2017

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Smart Living for this week:

The Nurse Who Paints Her Patients

Plants For Dummies

Closing The Word Gap For Toddlers

High-Tech Pets

 

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Doctor's In-depth Interview of the week
 

Fixing Frozen Shoulder Syndrome - In-Depth Doctor Interview

 

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Quote of the week:

“The struggle in caring for people is more often with what you do not know than what you do. Medicine's ground state is uncertainty. And wisdom - for both patients and doctors - is defined by how one copes with it.” 

— Atul Gawande

 

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