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Are You Medically Curious?
ILR448
Are You Medically Curious?
7 sessions, 14 hours
Are you ever skeptical of internet medical advice and TV drug
company ads? Do you search for “Evidence Based Medicine”,
presented so a layman can understand it? Welcome to “Are You
Medically Curious?”. The sessions are interactive, highlighted with
Dr. R’s learning “toys”, and aimed at understanding your amazing
body – when it works, and when it doesn’t.
5-Digit Number: 17292 | Tue, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., 2/5 – 4/2 | No Class: 2/12
& 3/12 | Location: Buckingham’s Choice | Tuition: $30.00, Fee: $112.00,
Total: $142.00, MD residents age 60+ pay fee only
ILR903
Medically Curious – Health Tips #1
1 session, 2 hours
This session’s topic is Health Tips #1. In this class you will learn about
the following: ear wax, exercise, cell phones, bite wounds, and taking
blood pressure.
5-Digit Number: 17293 | Tue, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., 2/5
Location: Buckingham’s Choice | Fee: $19.00
ILR903
Medically Curious – Medical Myths and
Simple Infections
1 session, 2 hours
This session’s topic is Medical Myths and Simple Infections. In this
class you will learn about the following: Does salt cause high blood
pressure, did the flu shot give me the flu, what’s the difference
bacteria and viruses, lice and scabies, and an URI and a UTI?
5-Digit Number: 17294 | Tue, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., 2/19
Location: Buckingham’s Choice | Fee: $19.00
ILR903
Medically Curious – America’s Weight
Problem
1 session, 2 hours
This session’s topic is America’s Weight Problem. In this class you will
learn about the following: how we became overweight, which diets
work best, are diet pills safe, and what is bariatric surgery.
5-Digit Number: 17297 | Tue, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., 2/26
Location: Buckingham’s Choice | Fee: $19.00
Register for all seven Medically Curious
sessions by registering for ILR448 OR pick
and choose individual sessions.
5-Digit Number for all seven sessions: 17292
ILR903
Medically Curious – Translating
Medicalese
1 session, 2 hours
This session’s topic is Translating Medicalese. In this class you will learn
about the following: how to understand your diagnosis, medical short
hand terms, learning to speak doctor’s language.
5-Digit Number: 17299 | Tue, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., 3/5
Location: Buckingham’s Choice | Fee: $19.00
ILR903
Medically Curious – Supplements and
Medicine vs. The Media
1 session, 2 hours
This session’s topic is Supplements and Medicine vs. The Media.
In this class you will learn about the following: Do supplements
work, are they safe, do we really need them? Are brand name drugs
safer and more effective than generics, what should we take for a fever,
and what’s MRSA and why is VRSA even worse?
5-Digit Number: 17295 | Tue, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., 3/19
Location: Buckingham’s Choice | Fee: $19.00
ILR903
Medically Curious – Psychiatry
1 session, 2 hours
This session’s topic is Psychiatry. In this class you will learn about the
following: anxiety, depression, schizophrenics, psychotics, PTSD, and
bipolar disorder.
5-Digit Number: 17296 | Tue, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., 3/26
Location: Buckingham’s Choice | Fee: $19.00
ILR903
Medically Curious – Our Opiate Epidemic
1 session, 2 hours
This session’s topic is Our Opiate Epidemic. In this class you will learn
about the following: Is there really an epidemic, could it happen to
you, who’s responsible for the problem, and what’s Narcan?
5-Digit Number: 17298 | Tue, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., 4/2
Location: Buckingham’s Choice | Fee: $19.00
Instructor:
Dr. Larry Romane
is board
certified in Emergency Medicine and
spent 35 years as an ER doctor. After
retiring, he served as a physician
volunteer at a free clinic for the
uninsured. He’s the author of two
medical books and loves teaching.
His courses give current medical information at a high school
reading level. Look for Dr. Romane’s book,
R U Medically Curious?
Common Topics – Simply Explained
, online and on Kindle.