Table of Contents

Why individual clinicians make specific decisions usually can be sorted out. But our behavior as a group is more difficult to understand—and to alter.

A 19-year-old woman presents with exertional dyspnea. What can her electrocardiogram tell us?

The patient, who had a squamous cell carcinoma, underwent Mohs surgery and has done well.

Diabetic kidney disease is on the rise. Strategies to prevent or control it are lowering blood pressure, controlling blood sugar, and inhibiting the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.

The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) highlights the importance of effective antibiotics to maintain the safety of our health care system. Clinicians will encounter CRE as a cause of difficult-to-treat and often fatal infections in hospitalized patients. We review the mechanisms of carbapenem resistance, the dissemination and clinical impact of these resistant organisms, and challenges to their detection, treatment, and control.

Today, patients who cannot undergo surgery can be offered a variety of less invasive treatments. We use seven cases to illustrate how to manage these patients.

Although a trial found that women with normal or only slightly low results need not come back for another 15 years, it may not be so simple.

Doctors should not order unnecessary and expensive tests and should not recommend frequent repeated testing that does not benefit the patient.

How aortic valve disease is managed continues to evolve. Issues include outcomes and costs.

Readers comment on the short QT syndrome (January 2013).

Readers comment on the short QT syndrome (January 2013).