TY  - JOUR
AU  - Michael, Fossel
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/01/06
TI  - OBM Geriatrics—An International Open Access Journal for 21<sup>st</sup> Century Geriatrics Medicine
JO  - OBM Geriatrics
SP  - 001
VL  - 01
IS  - 01
AB  - Geriatrics, and much of clinical medicine, is on the verge of a profound transformational shift. Until now, there has been a sharp conceptual divide between diseases which can be readily and effectively treated, and diseases which we have thought to be beyond clinical intervention. In the first disease category, are many of the most common infections that respond to antibiotics and immunizations. We have made dramatic changes in the demographics and the mortality of many such treatable diseases. At the other extreme, however, lay the common age-related diseases, for which we could do almost nothing. We have little to offer our patients, except solace, compassion, and bleak acceptance.
SN  - 2638-1311
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.geriatr.1701001
DO  - 10.21926/obm.geriatr.1701001
ID  - Michael2017
ER  -