More articles from From The Editor
- Training physician leaders to save the health system… and us
The success of the health system and the emotional well-being and clinical skills of its physicians are clearly interrelated.
- The algorithm less traveled
At Bellevue, the RPR was a routine test; at the University of Pennsylvania not so much—it all depends on context.
- Understanding the tests we order: Comments and an invitation
Some new laboratory tests go through a life cycle, first being used by subspecialists and then by physicians everywhere.
- Deprescribing: When trying for less is more
We should periodically revisit the goals and rationale for all prescribed medications.
- Can a shared decision be wrong if made for the ‘right’ reasons?
Providing information alone is not enough; we need to understand the patient’s biases, fears, and priorities.
- A New Year’s transition and looking forward
Time to take stock of advances in—and obstacles to—the delivery of quality healthcare.
- Toward understanding chronic kidney disease in African Americans
African Americans respond differently to some treatments than the white male patients who participated in the clinical trials.
- When cold-induced vasospasm is the tip of the iceberg
For a minority of patients, Raynaud phenomenon may be the presenting sign of a systemic disorder.
- Thoughtful vaccination
Vaccination against the varicella-zoster virus reduces the likelihood of shingles and postherpetic neuralgia.
- Fighting the reflux reflex
We should think twice when making a clinical diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease.