What about eating disorders? According to the National Institute of Health (2016) article, Eating Disorders: “Eating disorders are actually serious and often fatal illnesses that cause severe disturbances to a person’s eating behaviors. Obsessions with food, body weight, and shape may also signal an eating disorder.

Certain books, novels, movies, videos or documentaries go on to stand the test of time. Unbeknownst at the hour of their conception and time of their creation, they transform into traditional or cult classics worthy of being read or watched again and again.

How is Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care connected to and influenced by various sociocultural factors, such as gender, social class, race, and administrative cultures? This following commentary introduces each of these factors, and offers two exceptional resources on this subject for review and reflection.

Each illness or disease gives rise to unique circumstances and challenges for both patient and practitioner.

In the next fifty years, the older adult population in the United States alone is projected to more than double in size, from 31 million to 80 million.