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- Labels matter: Challenging conversations or challenging people?
Caring for patients is a complex, intricate, intimate privilege. To characterize it otherwise is to not fully understand it.
- Parsimonious blood use and lower transfusion triggers: What is the evidence?
Cumulative data have confi rmed the safety of a conservative approach to transfusion.
- Breast calcifications mimicking pulmonary nodules
Radiography suggested the lesions were in the lungs, but CT and mammography said otherwise.
- Disseminated molluscum contagiosum lesions in an HIV patient
The patient was diagnosed with HIV-related encephalopathy and disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.
- Measuring both serum amylase and lipase for acute pancreatitis lowers quality and raises cost
Measuring lipase alone is sufficient.
- Bleeding esophageal varices: Who should receive a shunt?
A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt can prevent repeated variceal bleeding and control refractory ascites.
- Which bowel preparation should be used for colonoscopy in patients who have had bariatric surgery?
The authors routinely use low-volume (2-L) polyethylene glycol preparations in split-dose regimens.
- Pharmacotherapy for obesity: What you need to know
Weight-loss drugs are not magic pills, but they can help when used along with diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes.
- Fighting the reflux reflex
We should think twice when making a clinical diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease.