More articles from From the Editor
- The people behind the Journal really matter
This month, the Journal bids farewell to sales and marketing director Joe Dennehy and deputy editor Jim Pile.
- Trust the thyroid thermostat
Why do some physicians persist in regularly following the T3 and T4 levels in addition to the TSH?
- LGBT care: There has been progress
A tectonic shift has taken place in how we perceive and interact with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
- The fifth vital sign: A complex story of politics and patient care
Times have changed, and the diffi culties and complexities of trying to help patients with ongoing pain have increased.
- Predicting is tough, especially about the future
All risk calculators—not just for anticoagulation—are based on the “average” patient. And no patient is average.
- Zika—a new continent and new complications?
Zika reminds us that we live in a medically connected global community.
- When we need to remember that it is more than a job
It is the nature of our engagement with our patients and our colleagues that makes what we do more than a job.
- Hope may not be the best component of an exercise regimen
Exercising to lose weight more often results in frustration than a trip to the store to buy smaller-sized clothes.
- The simple lab test is sometimes more complex than we think, if we think about it at all
Before ordering more tests because of an abnormal laboratory result (eg, elevated creatine kinase), think about its biology.