Dr. Lofty L Basta MD
Adolescent Specialist | Adolescent Medicine
765 MARKET ST APT 35A SAN FRANCISCO CA, 94103About
Dr. Lofty Basta is an adolescent specialist practicing in SAN FRANCISCO, CA. Dr. Basta works with patients who are in the adolescent age, or generally between the ages of 11 and 19 years old. As an adolescent-specialist, Dr. Basta treats many common health issues that pre-teens and teenagers face, from mental, to behavioral, to physical conditions. Some of these issues may include growth and hormone problems, sports injuries, eating disorders, substance abuse and more. Adolescent specialists perform medical exams, histories and diagnostic tests, and develop individualized treatment plans for each patient.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients.
- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients: a competent patient on renal dialysis asks to go home to be under the care of her unqualified husband.
- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients: a woman executed a living will with provisions that impeded its implementation.
- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients.
- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients: a patient asks to put an end to the nightmare of living with a lifesaving AICD.
- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients.
- Proper planning for end-of-life medical care; confronting the near irrelevance of currently used living wills.
- Ethical issue: The patient undergoes surgery that she knows will not benefit her, hoping that she will die in the process while under anesthesia.
- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients.
- Routine implantation of cardioverter/defibrillator devices in patients aged 75 years and older with prior myocardial infarction and left ventricular ejection fraction < 30: antagonist viewpoint.
- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients.
- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients.
- Ethical issues in the management of geriatric cardiac patients.
- End-of-life medical treatment of older cardiac patients.
- Better late than never: how congestive heart failure patients die.
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