Dr. Leilani L Nixon MD
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
31 Dow Rd Plainfield CT, 06374About
Dr. Leilani Nixon practices Geriatric Medicine in Plainfield, CT. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Nixon 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.
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Making meaning of illness: Arthur Frank's The Wounded Storyteller.
- How can you improve end-of-life decision making?
- The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures.
- Plague: the creative response.
- Rogue approaches in medical education.
- The case against compensation.
- "They will put it together/and take it apart": fiction and informed consent.
- "Scoot down to the edge of the table, hon": women's medical experiences portrayed in literature.
- The fictional world: What literature says to health professionals.
- To embrace the messenger: connections in three plays about AIDS.
- Cloning of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa phosphomannose isomerase genes and their expression in alginate-negative mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
- Surveillance for asthma--United States, 1960-1995.
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