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- A 40-year-old woman with a “windmill” pattern of sensory disturbance
What is the likely cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-quiz on a clinical case.
- Pelvic inflammatory disease: The importance of aggressive treatment in adolescents
PID and its major sequelae of tubal scarring, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility are preventable if physicians diagnose it early and treat it aggressively. With an illustration explaining why adolescents are at greater risk for PID.
- The cruel “cancer cure” hype
The unrealistic hopes raised by recent news reports of an impending cure for cancer were cruel to patients.
- 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.
- Kuru and mad cow disease: Understanding the prion theory
With the recent controversy in England over mad cow disease, there is a growing understanding that prions are not just a medical curiosity, but a grave public health threat. With an illustration explaining how proteins can mutate and become infectious.