More articles from Commentary
- Telemedicine: Past, present, and future
Low reimbursement, licensing, practice issues limit its use.
- PSA screening: Back to the future
Screening for prostate cancer reduces mortality rates and metastatic disease, and the paradigm continues to evolve.
- 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines: Toward tighter control
Under the new defi nition (≥ 130/80 mm Hg), 46% of US adults have hypertension.
- Calcium and vitamin D: To supplement or not?
Current evidence suggests little reason to prescribe calcium, and vitamin D should be for patients with low levels.
- Reverse T3 or perverse T3? Still puzzling after 40 years
Few situations require measuring reverse T3; diagnosis of euthyroid sick syndrome may be one of them.
- The USPSTF and screening for obstructive sleep apnea: Dispelling misconceptions
Their finding of insufficient evidence might be misinterpreted and needs to be put into context.
- Anticoagulation in dental surgery: Is it rude to interrupt?
Anticoagulation should not be interrupted for dental surgery.
- It is not the critic’s voice that should count
Lawsuits often confront physicians with incidental imperfections in the care they provided or with errors in their documentation.
- Veterans, guilt, and suicide risk: An opportunity to collaborate with chaplains?
Chaplains and clinicians bring complementary skills and services to the problem of suicide risk in veterans.
- The ethics of ICDs: History and future directions
There is no ethical requirement that treatment, once started, must continue against the patient’s wishes.