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- In reply: Geriatric patient-centered medical home
Readers comment on synthetic legal intoxicating drugs (April 2012) and on the geriatric patient-centered medical home (May 2012).
- The stethoscope as metaphor
The humanities—and bedside skills—ought to be a fundamental part of medical education. The alternative is a future full of technicians with tricorders, but sorely lacking in healers.
- Regularizing the approach to the irregularly irregular
We have more choices, more data, and more management algorithms, but still no panacea for atrial fibrillation.
- Geriatric patient-centered medical home
Readers comment on synthetic legal intoxicating drugs (April 2012) and on the geriatric patient-centered medical home (May 2012).
- A farmer with chest pain and lung nodules
The patient, age 50, was treated 25 years ago for brucellosis. But he is also a 30-pack-year smoker. What does he have?
- Kidneys have a lot of nerve
Renal denervation shows promise. But hypertension is a heterogeneous condition, and the patient’s underlying pathophysiology may dictate the response to this physiologically based therapy.