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- The Canadian health care system: Is our present your future?
Despite their common objective—adequate health care for all—differences in history and perspective make it unlikely that Canada and the United States will ever approach health care delivery in the same way.
- Key Steps in Evaluating the Dizzy Patient
A carefully constructed history is usually adequate to diagnose vertigo from other forms of dizziness.
- Visual compromise in the diabetic patient
The importance of an aggressive approach to diagnosis, management, and follow-up of diabetic retinopathy cannot be overstated.
- The electrocardiogram in remote myocardial infarction: reassessment of criteria
Specificity and positive predictive accuracy are more important than sensitivity in clinical electrocardiographic diagnosis.
- Pharmacology and use of headache medications
Successful headache treatment depends on correlating the pathophysiology of the disease with drug pharmacology.
- Parenteral nitrogen mustard for inflammatory arthritis
Intravenous nitrogen mustard may be an alternative therapy for progressive psoriatic arthritis that is refractory to methotrexate.
- Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate with hypercalcemia
Hypercalcemia in a patient with advanced prostatic cancer was probably a metabolic complication.
- Electrocardiographic criteria for anterior myocardial infarction
Five criteria tested in 1,324 consecutive patients confirmed the diagnostic value of the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram.