Dr. Charles F Von gunten MD
General Practitioner
4311 Third Ave San Diego CA, 92103About
Dr. Charles Von gunten is a general practitioner practicing in San Diego, CA. Dr. Von gunten does not specialize in one area of medicine, however provides routine health care services. General practitioners typically have regular, even life-long patients who they provide health care services to. Dr. Von gunten provides services including physical exams, immunizations, and diagnosing and treating multiple illnesses and injuries. General practitioners typically work in private offices and clinics and have staffs of nurses and administators.
Education and Training
Univ of Co Sch of Med, Denver Co 1988
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cancer pain management through a pharmacist-based analgesic dosing service.
- Development of a teaching module for quality-of-life assessment of terminal patients. The AACE Multi-Institutional Palliative Cancer Education Section. American Association for Cancer Education.
- Antisecretory agents in gastrointestinal obstruction.
- Symptom control in hospice--state of the art.
- Palliative medicine: an emerging field of specialization.
- Discussing do-not-resuscitate status.
- Abdominal cancer, nausea, and vomiting.
- Pediatric extubation: "pulling the tube".
- End-of-Life Graduate Education Curriculum Project. Project abstracts/progress reports--year 2.
- Initial voluntary program standards for fellowship training in palliative medicine.
- Physician-nurse conflict: can nurses refuse to carry out doctor's orders?
- Secondary and tertiary palliative care in US hospitals.
- Discussing hospice care.
- Clinical management of dyspnoea.
- Treatment of dyspnea in cancer patients.
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