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  • Can a humanities background prevent physician burnout?
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 225-226; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86b.04019

    Osler urged physicians to study the humanities. Can it prevent professional dissatisfaction and burnout?

  • In reply: Metformin for type 2 diabetes January 2019
    Vinni Makin, MBBS, MD, FACE and M. Cecilia Lansang, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 237; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.04004
  • Personalizing guideline-driven cancer screening
    Gautam Mankaney, MD and Carol A. Burke, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 228-230; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.19037

    Screening can lead to early diagnosis and prevent death from cancer, but the topic provokes controversy.

  • Acute kidney injury after hip or knee replacement: Can we lower the risk?
    Edward J. Filippone, MD, FASN and Anju Yadav, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 263-276; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18044

    Various risk factors have been identified, and some are potentially modifiable.

  • The old humanities and the new science at 100: Osler’s enduring message
    Salvatore Mangione, MD and Marc J. Kahn, MD, MBA, MACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 232-235; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.19019

    One hundred years after his death, what can Osler teach the high-tech physician of today?

  • Norwegian scabies
    Hiroki Matsuura, MD, Akemi Senoo, MD, PhD, Mari Saito, MD and Yuko Fujimoto, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 163-164; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18081

    Norwegian scabies is extremely contagious, and outbreaks can spread in institutions.

  • Does early repolarization on ECG increase the risk of cardiac death in healthy people?
    Ziad Sayedahmad, MD, Fahed Darmoch, MD, Yasser Al-Khadra, MD, Amjad Kabach, MD and M. Chadi Alraies, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 165-166; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.17032

    No. In patients without symptoms, early repolarization is nearly always a benign incidental finding.

  • Three neglected numbers in the CBC: The RDW, MPV, and NRBC count
    Jori E. May, MD, Marisa B. Marques, MD, Vishnu V.B. Reddy, MD and Radhika Gangaraju, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 167-172; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18072

    These values have diagnostic utility and potential prognostic significance.

  • Flu or strep? Rapid tests can mislead
    Burke A. Cunha, MD, MACP and Nonso Osakwe, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 161-162; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18094

    Group A streptococci are common colonizers with viral pharyngitis.

  • Hypertension guidelines January 2019
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 210;

    The article Aleyadeh W, Hutt-Centeno E, Ahmed HM, Shah NP. Hypertension guidelines: treat patients, not numbers. Cleve Clin J Med 2019; 86(1):47–56. doi:10.3949/ccjm.86a.18027 contained an error.

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