Dr. Norman A Desbiens MD
Internist
960 E 3rd St Suite 208 Chattanooga TN, 37403About
Dr. Norman Desbiens is an internist practicing in Chattanooga, TN. Dr. Desbiens specializes in the medical treatment of adults. Internists can act as a primary physician or a consultant to a primary physician. They manage both common and rare diseases. Dr. Desbiens provides comprehensive care and manages treatment with surgeons as well. Internists establish long-term relationships with their patients and incorporate disease prevention and mental health care into their practice.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1972
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Aspirin and risk of hemorrhagic stroke.
- Prediction of survival for older hospitalized patients: the HELP survival model. Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project.
- Withholding versus withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: patient factors and documentation associated with dialysis decisions.
- Living and dying with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Dying with acute respiratory failure or multiple organ system failure with sepsis.
- Age-related differences in care preferences, treatment decisions, and clinical outcomes of seriously ill hospitalized adults: lessons from SUPPORT.
- Pain and suffering in seriously ill hospitalized patients.
- Insights about dying from the SUPPORT project. The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments.
- How well do surrogates assess the pain of seriously ill patients?
- Lessons learned from attempts to establish the blind in placebo-controlled trials of zinc for the common cold.
- Stress in caregivers of hospitalized oldest-old patients.
- Area under the ROC curve for a binary diagnostic test.
- Deciding on anticoagulating the oldest old with atrial fibrillation: insights
- In randomized controlled trials, should subjects in both placebo and drug groups be expected to guess that they are taking drug 50% of the time?
- Doctors' perceptions of drinking alcohol while on call: questionnaire survey.
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