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Bemoaning the technology is not the answer—we need to refine the EHR, but we also need to do better documentation.

For all their purported benefits, electronic systems drive caregivers to work alone, thereby discouraging spontaneous interaction.

We need a system that extends our abilities and improves the care we give—and we don’t have it yet.

Patients who need surgery ask, “How much pain will I have, and how will you manage it?”

A 60-year-old woman presents with massive venous thrombosis. What is the cause?

Was the survey well designed? Was the sample appropriate and the response rate adequate? And do the data support the conclusions?

How these new drugs work, what coagulation tests can tell us, and how to reverse the drugs’ anticoagulant effect.

This focal disorder of aging bone may be asymptomatic or cause pain, bowing deformities, fractures, or nonspecific rheumatic complaints.

A young man taking narcotic analgesics long-term has developed abdominal pain and vomiting. What is the cause?

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