{"id":277362,"date":"2026-03-31T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/dennis-fitzgerald-md\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:01:47","slug":"dennis-fitzgerald-md","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/dennis-fitzgerald-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Fitzgerald M\u00e9dico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>Dennis Fitzgerald, MD obteve o seu Doutoramento em Medicina na Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine da Hofstra\/Northwell University em Hempstead, Nova Iorque. Concluiu a sua resid\u00eancia em neurologia e a sua especializa\u00e7\u00e3o em neurologia cognitiva no Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, em Boston.<\/p>\n<p>O caminho do Dr. Fitzgerald para a neurologia foi moldado por experi\u00eancias pessoais que despertaram uma profunda curiosidade sobre o c\u00e9rebro e o comportamento humano. As perdas precoces na sua fam\u00edlia levaram-no a procurar compreender como o c\u00e9rebro influencia as vidas que somos capazes de viver. Estas experi\u00eancias formativas, combinadas com o exemplo inspirador da sua m\u00e3e, que era m\u00e3e solteira e criava tr\u00eas filhos enquanto trabalhava a tempo inteiro como advogada, incutiram nele tanto a curiosidade cient\u00edfica como o empenho em prestar cuidados compassivos.<\/p>\n<p>Acredita que a primeira coisa a fazer \u00e9 relacionar-se com os pacientes como pessoas. As suas consultas come\u00e7am com uma conversa aberta, onde fica a conhecer os antecedentes e interesses dos doentes. \"Os acompanhamentos acabam por ser como ver um velho amigo\", observa. Esta abordagem refor\u00e7a o seu empenhamento em ajudar cada doente a navegar no seu diagn\u00f3stico e tratamento.<\/p>\n<p>Os seus interesses cl\u00ednicos incluem a neurologia comportamental, com \u00eanfase nas doen\u00e7as neurodegenerativas, como a doen\u00e7a de Alzheimer e a doen\u00e7a dos corpos de Lewy. O Dr. Fitzgerald dedica tempo a educar os doentes sobre as suas doen\u00e7as, explicando a neuroci\u00eancia em termos acess\u00edveis. Ele acredita que a compreens\u00e3o transforma um diagn\u00f3stico intimidante em algo mais f\u00e1cil de gerir, dando aos pacientes e \u00e0s fam\u00edlias a possibilidade de navegarem na sua jornada com maior confian\u00e7a.<\/p>\n<p>Fora do trabalho, o Dr. Fitzgerald gosta mais de passar tempo com a sua mulher e \u00e9 tamb\u00e9m um \u00e1vido baterista que se inspira em mestres como Larnell Lewis e Dennis Chambers.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":287810,"template":"","specialty":[148],"language":[],"keywords":[562,899,558,1332,862,891,314,315,556,1334,559,883,884,566,567,553,1333,554,563,564,900,1335,882,557,894,888,568,886,898,881,869,560,561,555],"address":[425],"class_list":["post-277362","doctors","type-doctors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialties-neurology","keywords-adhd","keywords-aicd","keywords-alzheimers-disease","keywords-back-fusion","keywords-back-pain","keywords-brain-and-spine","keywords-brain-cancer","keywords-brain-tumor","keywords-concussion-management","keywords-corpectomy-stenosis","keywords-dementia","keywords-disc","keywords-disc-herniation","keywords-eeg","keywords-emg","keywords-head-ache","keywords-hydrocephalus-shunt","keywords-migrane","keywords-ms","keywords-multiple-sclerosis","keywords-neck-surgery","keywords-neuromuscular-disorders","keywords-neurosurgery","keywords-parkinsons-disease","keywords-sciatica","keywords-scoliosis","keywords-seizure","keywords-skull-tumor","keywords-spinal-stenosis","keywords-spine","keywords-spine-pain","keywords-stroke","keywords-tia","keywords-trigeminal-neuralgia","addresses-67_79"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dennis Fitzgerald MD - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/dennis-fitzgerald-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_PT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dennis Fitzgerald MD - Southcoast Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dennis Fitzgerald, MD earned his Doctor of Medicine from the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra\/Northwell University in Hempstead, New York. 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