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- Pitfalls in managing routine medical problems of patients with spinal cord injury
Physicians caring for patients with spinal cord injury need to know how to apply management strategies uniquely appropriate in these patients.
- The protein-sparing modified fast for obesity-related medical problems
This ketogenic diet of 800 calories per day is useful for carefully selected patients.
- How to tell patients bad news: the strategy of “forecasting”
How does one tell a patient that he or she has cancer, or new parents that their child has a birth defect?
- Diagnosis and management of acute pancreatitis
Timely recognition and management of risk factors in acute pancreatitis can prevent catastrophic outcomes.
- Gastric and intestinal dysmotility syndromes
Disorders of motility of the stomach and small intestine are quite common, and patients often present with a variety of nonspecific symptoms.
- Medicine and the Internet: why physicians should pay attention
The question for physicians is no longer whether to bother to be connected to the Internet, but whether they can afford not to.
- Understanding obesity: The interaction of diet, genetics, and hormones
The widely held belief that gluttony and sloth underlie obesity is fading, as research sheds light on the interactions between diet, genetics, hormones, and neurotransmitters.
- Managing acetaminophen overdose
Alcohol and certain drugs potentiate the hepatotoxic effects of this common, over-the-counter analgesic. Treatment with acetylcysteine and, possibly, Cimetidine can prevent irreversible liver damage.
- Identifying early markers of type II diabetes
Earlier identification of people at risk may permit intervention with diet and exercise to prevent NIDDM.
- Thromboembolic disease: underdiagnosed, undertreated, deadly
What should you be looking for in your nonambulatory hospitalized patients? A capsulization of current concepts in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of this problem.