More articles from From The Editor
- Functional health illiteracy: What patients don’t know can hurt them
Patient education has become a discipline in itself, and physicians need to take better advantage of it.
- Meet Peter Studer, our new publisher
Joining our small but dedicated staff of professionals, Mr. Studer is the right man for the job.
- BNP looks like a winner
Natriuretic peptides are out of the research laboratory and into the clinic and hospital ward.
- Linda Hengstler, publisher, editor, and friend, ends 14-year stint at CCJM
Under Ms. Hengstler’s guidance, the Journal has found and grown into its niche as an increasingly appreciated and widely read educational publication for the busy clinician.
- CME credit: Fewer hours, but still a good deal
Owing to ACCME regulations, we can give you only 1 hour of CME credit per issue instead of the 2 hours you have been getting. Still, we hope you find the Journal worth your time and attention.
- Bioterrorism: An unintended boost to public health?
If anything good comes of recent events, it might be rejuvination of America’s public health system, which has languished in recent years.
- COX-2 inhibitors: Balancing the hope, the hype, and the concern
When all is said and done, the choice rests with the individual prescribing physician.
- Handheld computers are fun, sometimes even useful
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
- Adverse drug reactions and medication errors: Not always a clear distinction
Unrecognized adverse drug reactions can quickly become medication errors.
- IM Board Review: A medical mystery every month
Nearly every month for the past 8 years we have asked you the reader to unravel a complicated case.