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- CME good and bad news: Now 1.5 hours, but you must go online
Bookmark this URL: www.ccjm.org. Starting with this issue, you must go online to get your CME credit. It’s easy, you get your certificate for 1.5 CME hours right away, and it’s still free.
- Making good decisions about diet: Weight loss is not weight maintenance
Lack of long-term data on very-low-carbohydrate diets makes their medically unsupervised use very troubling.
- Hematuria: An algorithmic approach to finding the cause
Many conditions can cause hematuria, but the differential diagnosis can be simplified with a systematic approach.
- Mitral valve prolapse: Old beliefs yield to new knowledge
Many things we once believed about mitral valve prolapse have proved false.
‘Coach class thrombosis’: Is the risk real? What do we tell our patients?The risk is real but small; only those already at increased risk of venous thromboembolism need to be concerned.
- Preventing kidney stones: Calcium restriction not warranted
Normal dietary calcium intake, along with reduced salt and protein, is now advised.
- So you’re being sued: Do’s and don’ts for the defendant
You may be dangerously uninformed about a process you might well have to face: malpractice litigation.
- Collect the evidence; I’ll look at it in a minute
We have good evidence and guidelines. Why aren’t we using them more?
- The newer antimuscarinic drugs: Bladder control with less dry mouth
Tolterodine (Detrol) and extended-release oxybutynin (Ditropan XL) are replacing immediate-release oxybutynin, being better tolerated.
- Poor hypertension control: Let’s stop blaming the patients
Only 27% of people with hypertension are at goal blood pressure levels, according to government figures. Is it the fault of the patients—or their physicians?