Dr. Martin J Gorbien M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
1725 W Harrison St Suite 319 Chicago IL, 60612About
Dr. Martin Gorbien practices Geriatric Medicine in Chicago, IL. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Gorbien works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras Facultad de Ciencias Medicas 1983
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Healthcare ethics committees, dialysis, and decisionmaking.
- Clinical pathways: too hard a course for complex patients?
- The family meeting: a benchmark of high-quality geriatric care.
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: how useful? Attitudes and knowledge of an elderly population.
- Elder abuse and neglect: an overview.
- Dementia and elder abuse.
- Gouty arthritis. A primer on late-onset gout.
- Use of proton pump inhibitors with lack of diagnostic indications in 22 Midwestern US skilled nursing facilities.
- Symposium on geriatric care:.
- Angiodysplasia and lower gastrointestinal tract bleeding in elderly patients.
- Anorexia of aging: a simple approach to management.
- Factors influencing physicians in recommending in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- When your older patient can't sleep: how to put insomnia to rest.
- Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism in a blind, deaf, elderly woman with dementia.
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