More articles from Commentary
- Caring for VIPs: Nine principles
When the patient is a “very important person,” the health care team should resist pressure to bend the rules.
- Series Introduction
To keep our readers up to date on progress in palliative medicine, we are presenting a series of articles on the topic.
- Bringing home the ‘medical home’ for older adults
We may be able to improve the care of our vulnerable older patients—and control costs—by taking their primary care to their own homes.
- The electronic medical record: Diving into a shallow pool?
We should reassess the possible unintended consequences of the rush to adopt electronic medical records.
- The electronic medical record: Learning to swim
Skepticism and vigilance are warranted, but so is optimism.
- Sorting through the recent controversies in breast cancer screening
Despite the new US recommendations, we continue to recommend yearly mammograms for most women, starting at age 40.
- Managing osteoporosis: Challenges and strategies
To identify those at high risk of fracture, we can use the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool, or FRAX. Patients who are prescribed a drug must also be educated about how and why to take it.
- New developments in the diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome: Say goodbye to tender points?
The Symptom Intensity Scale score can be used to identify and quantify fibromyalgia syndrome from information supplied by a simple questionnaire.
- A medical center is not a hospital: Reflections of a department chair still in the game
Dr. Thomas Lansdale’s commentary in the September issue resonated with many physicians because he so eloquently captured the increasing frustration that many physicians feel.
- A medical center is not a hospital
After 23 years in hospital medicine, a department chairman and clinician-educator calls it quits.