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- An ounce of prevention…
Managed care could encourage cooperation between mainstream clinical medicine and public health.
- Physician job satisfaction: reversing the decline
How physicians can increase their happiness with their work.
- Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism in a blind, deaf, elderly woman with dementia
An unusual case, with a discussion of the issues in the diagnosis of dementia.
- Individualizing the treatment of gout
Treatment for gouty arthritis should be tailored to the patient's other medical problems. A typical case and review of the options.
- Recognizing and treating new and emerging infections encountered in everyday practice
The clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of seven emerging infections that primary care physicians are likely to encounter.
- Shark cartilage: the Laetrile of the 1990s
Shark cartilage, like Laetrile, high-dose vitamin C, and coffee enemas, provides patients with emotional support, but does nothing to the cancer.
- A 36-year-old woman with progressive shortness of breath and chylous pleural effusion
A self-test of clinical recognition.
- Acute myelogenous leukemia in first complete remission
Outcomes can be predicted by, and therapy tailored to, specific prognostic factors, such as age and karyotype.
- Therapy for acute ischemic stroke: the door opens
Finally, a successful trial of treatment for acute stroke. Now, a major effort is needed to reduce time from onset to treatment.