More articles from Commentary
- 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.
- Interpreting the Enhance Trial
The impact of the ENHANCE trial reveals more about the political climate than it does about the effects of ezetimibe on the progression of atherosclerosis.
- Infective endocarditis prophylaxis before dental procedures: New guidelines spark controversy
Many fewer people will need to receive antibiotics, according to new guidelines released by the American Heart Association.