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- Sildenafil (Viagra) for treating male erectile dysfunction
A brief overview of sildenafil, the first oral drug for treating erectile dysfuntion. With an illustration showing how the drug works.
- The promises and risks of inpatient specialization
Much of the benefit of hospitalist care will be lost if we place the emphasis on wringing every last nickel out of the cost of providing care.
- Infectious disease and transplantation: Messages for the generalist
With more patients receiving transplants and surviving longer afterward, their primary care physicians are called on to evaluate problems as they arise.
- A 61-year-old woman with edema, shortness of breath, and pleuritic chest pain
What is the likely cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-quiz on a clinical case.
- The hospitalism Will inpatient specialists improve care
The number of practitioners specializing in inpatient medicine is growing as a response to managed care’s push for better health outcomes and cost control.
- Group a Streptococcal Necrotizing Fasciitis
Appropriate management of this life-threatening infection requires rapid recognition, immediate antibiotic therapy, and expeditious surgical debridement or excision.
- Asymptomatic hypercalcemia in a 51-year-old woman
What is the likely cause of this patient’s hypercalcemia? A self quiz on a clinical case.
- Diagnosing and treating depression in primary care patients: Looking beyond physical complaints
Depression is common, but often overlooked because patients with depression often present with somatic complaints rather than psychological ones.