Geriatrics

There is a pressing shortage of professionals specially trained in geriatrics, especially among physicians. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Despite a lack of specialized training in geriatrics, many health care professionals regularly treat older patients. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Not everyone in geriatrics works directly with the patient. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Only a handful of medical schools require students to take courses in geriatrics. ❋ Unknown (2002)

To respond to the Happy Hospitalist's comment, as a FP in Canada you can follow your two year family medicine residency with a third year to improve your skills in a particular patient population such as geriatrics which will help you to manage that complicated 85-yr-old. ❋ 1 Dinosaur (2008)

Though some speeches included words like "geriatrics" and "uxoriousness," the Flesch readability test--designed to measure how difficult a text is to understand--placed them at a fifth-grade reading level. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Mnangagwa gave ZANU-PF MP Lazarus Dokora a warning for referring to the country's judges as "geriatrics". ❋ Unknown (2000)

A part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Coler-Goldwater is committed to serving the New York City and surrounding communities while setting the example as a national leader in long-term and sub-acute care with centers of excellence is areas such as geriatrics, rehabilitation, and ventilator dependence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another group of consultants in the old "off-site" private practice Category 2 who work in some specialties such as geriatrics, and in the midlands, north-west and west, would be in line for pay increases of €77,308 for switching over to the public only contract. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It also has some of his not-so-classics, like the geriatrics-in-orbit Space Cowboys (which could have been renamed Apollo 83) and the orangutan buddy comedy Every Which Way But Loose. ❋ Unknown (2009)

See if any of the crochety geriatrics in the GOP can pull a Thurmond and speak out agains the healthcare bill for 24 consecutive hours. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With the notion of a mellow, California festival annihilated, concert goers are given little choice but to venture in the garden of earthly delights, watching people swivel around, catching glimpses of flat bellies and throbbing cellulite, infants in aviators and giant pink headphones and geriatrics in safari hats. ❋ Alexander Adler (2011)

I went on to become a public school teacher, and a geriatrics director at a community hospital in Craven County. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There simply are not enough primary care physicians – especially geriatrics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1995, Holly Prigerson, then a psychiatric epidemiologist with a specialty in geriatrics, was sitting in a meeting of a group researching mood disorder in later life at the University of Pittsburgh as they reviewed data from a study trying to treat bereavement-related depression. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

Bozo The Neoclown says: one again pox is wrong. bill clinton has government run health care insurance thanks to his stint as president. much like the geriatrics who watch pox all day, also covered by government run medicare. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What is this [geriatric] talking about, and why is he trying to [feed me] [hard candy]? ❋ Gator13 (2010)

Man... for a geriatric... [Brett Farve] sure can [throw] that [pigskin]. ❋ Smurf (2008)

[Using] "d'ruther" in [place] of "would [rather]" is a geriatrism. ❋ Nate Bodine (2007)

"[Sweetie], we ran out of Poligrip. Will you run to the store and pick some up for me?" "The car is out of gas dear. We can always try The Geriatric to have them temporarily hold [until tomorrow]." "Good thinking Sweetie. Let's get a move on into the bedroom- we sure don't want to be late for the [early bird special]!" ❋ FMA.memories.PSU (2011)

Oh my god, why do all [the geriatric's] have to come to the post office at lunch time instead of the other [7 hours] [in the day] when I'm at work and they're doing nothing? ❋ Ted_trippin (2005)

A geriatric patient did a double leg take down then transitioned to a rear [nake] [guillotine] choke to the front desk people upon learning the cutest [physio] therapist isnt available. ❋ Lance Footstrong (2015)

Oh thats just [Randall]... he's [geriatric], and needs his sleep from feeding people hard [candies]. ❋ Bob_Saget3 (2018)

Person 1: I’m sending my racist mom to a [retirement home] in [Alabama]. Person 2: [Geriatric-mandering], huh? ❋ CookPu69 (2020)

[My brother] is so geriatric X, he does not know anything [about Facebook] and still spends his time on [MySpace]. ❋ Brbbri (2007)

From the film, Dr. Robert [Doback] (Father): "You jagaloons! You're failures! FAILURES!" [Brennan Huff] ([Will Ferrell]): "Hey, you're embarrassing yourself, you geriatric fuck!" YouTube Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-mXKIs0jyI ❋ HolyDumbFuck (2010)