Dr. J Kevin Dorsey M.D.
Rheumatologist | Rheumatology
751 N Rutledge St Springfield IL, 62702About
Dr. J Dorsey is a rheumatologist practicing in Springfield, IL. Dr. Dorsey specializes in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and systematic autoimmune conditions that can affect the bones, muscles or bones. Eventually, if not treated, these illnesses can also impact the skin, eyes, nervous system and internal organs. Dr. Dorsey treats diseases similar to orthopedists but does not perform surgery. Often times, research is conducted to find potential alternatives for the patients illness.
Education and Training
Southern Illinois University At Edwardsville 1978
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Student attitudes toward wellness, empathy, and spirituality in the curriculum.
- Risk-factor fusion for predicting multifactorial diseases.
- Effect of gender, age, and relevant course work on attitudes toward empathy, patient spirituality, and physician wellness.
- Using indirect questions to detect intimate partner violence: the SAFE-T questionnaire.
- Prevalence of health-related behaviors among physicians and medical trainees.
- Reports of the decline of empathy during medical education are greatly exaggerated: a reexamination of the research.
- Unprofessional behavior by specialty: a qualitative analysis of six years of student perceptions of medical school faculty.
- Feedback matters: the impact of an intervention by the dean on unprofessional faculty at one medical school.
- Rasch analysis of professional behavior in medical education.
- Empathy in Medical Students Is Moderated by Openness to Spirituality.
- Pregnancy among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus receiving immunosuppressive therapy.
- Clinical and serologic expression of localized scleroderma. Case report and review of the literature.
- Effects of nifedipine on baroreflex modulation of vascular resistance in man.
- The purification and properties of pig liver geranyl pyrophosphate synthetase.
- The inhibition of mevalonic kinase by geranyl and farnesyl pyrophosphates.
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Practice At 751 N Rutledge St
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