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The success of the health system and the emotional well-being and clinical skills of its physicians are clearly interrelated.

With surgical repair and blood pressure control, the patient recovered and left the hospital 1 week later.

Failure of presumed Bell palsy to improve should prompt an evaluation for an underlying condition.

In medicine, we need all the help we can get.

Despite intravenous antibiotics and surgical debridement, the patient’s right leg had to be amputated.

Few situations require measuring reverse T₃; diagnosis of euthyroid sick syndrome may be one of them.

There is no need to continue Pap testing after hysterectomy for a benign indication.

This antimalarial drug is now approved to treat discoid lupus, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis.

With a myriad of causes and nonspecifi c symptoms, pulmonary hypertension needs a methodic diagnostic approach.

Be alert for clues on chest imaging, and consider screening fi rst-degree relatives of patients known to have aortic disease.

Readers comment on antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (February 2018).