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  • In reply: Geriatric patient-centered medical home
    Amelia Gennari, MD, Kim Fedor, BSN, MBA, Eric Bakow, MA, MPM, RRT and Neil M. Resnick, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2012, 79 (8) 535; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79c.08004

    Readers comment on synthetic legal intoxicating drugs (April 2012) and on the geriatric patient-centered medical home (May 2012).

  • The stethoscope as metaphor
    Salvatore Mangione, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2012, 79 (8) 545-546; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12075

    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
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2012, 79 (8) 522; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79b.12008

    We have more choices, more data, and more management algorithms, but still no panacea for atrial fibrillation.

  • Geriatric patient-centered medical home
    David L. Keller, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2012, 79 (8) 535; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79c.07003

    Readers comment on synthetic legal intoxicating drugs (April 2012) and on the geriatric patient-centered medical home (May 2012).

  • An argument for reviving the disappearing skill of cardiac auscultation
    Donald Clark, MD, Mustafa I. Ahmed, MD, Louis J. Dell’italia, MD, Pohoey Fan, MD and David C. McGiffin, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2012, 79 (8) 536-544; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12001

    Three case scenarios show how the clinical examination can complement echocardiography in the evaluation of valvular heart disease.

  • Kidneys have a lot of nerve
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 451; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79b.12007

    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.

  • Renal denervation to treat resistant hypertension: Guarded optimism
    Renal denervation to treat resistant hypertension: Guarded optimism
    George Thomas, MD, Mehdi H. Shishehbor, DO, MPH, Emmanuel L. Bravo, MD and Joseph V. Nally, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 501-510; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12040

    Can a percutaneous catheter-based procedure cure resistant hypertension? The limited data available so far look good.

  • Aortic stenosis: Who should undergo surgery, transcatheter valve replacement?
    Fadi Sawaya, MD, James Stewart, MD and Vasilis Babaliaros, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 487-497; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.11043

    For some patients with aortic stenosis, the choice of management is simple; for others it is less so.

  • The promise of renal denervation
    Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH and George L. Bakris, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 498-500; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12051

    Only with further carefully conducted randomized trials of renal denervation will its full promise be realized.

  • Patchy hair loss on the scalp
    Matthew F. Helm, Joseph Housel, MD and Ilene Rothman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 472-473; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.11129

    A 12-year-old girl has a large, irregular area of hair loss. What is going on?

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