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- Do today's medical residents really have it better?
Despite changes designed to make medical education more humane, it is not easier to be an intern or resident today.
- Diagnosing and treating hallux valgus: A conservative approach for a common problem
For most patients with hallux valgus, the problem is caused by wearing shoes that are too tight. How to evaluate and treat this problem, and when to refer to an orthopaedic surgeon.
- Assessing and minimizing reproductive risks of cancer chemotherapy
Now that more children and young adults are surviving malignant diseases, a new problem is arising: the reproductive effects of intensive chemotherapy.
- Ethical perspectives on Jehovah's Witnesses’ refusal of blood
Jehovah's Witnesses are not antimedicine, but do refuse blood transfusions and blood products. How to deal with the treatment dilemmas this can create.
- Vascular claudication: How to individualize treatment
Clinicians today have a wider variety of options for treating claudication, from medical therapy to angioplasty or surgery.
- Is intensive glycemic control worth the expense?
Is tight control of glucose levels cost-effective for type I diabetes? And what about type II diabetes?
- A 68-year-old woman with high serum protein and no symptoms
As a result of a routine checkup, an elevated serum protein is found. What is the appropriate follow-up and diagnosis?
- Carvedilol for heart failure: Renewed interest in beta blockers
The idea of using beta blockers to treat heart failure seems counterintuitive. But Carvedilol is changing that thinking.