Search results for "healthy"
Better communication at the end of life
Form ensures dying patients' wishes are carried out as medical orders.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/patient-wishes.htm
15 Oct 2007
Test yourself: Preoperative evaluation
A 60-year-old man undergoes preoperative evaluation before total hip replacement surgery... and other cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/10/preop-eval.htm
15 Oct 2007
Fewer drugs, more bugs: Antibiotic resistance tops concerns at infectious diseases conference
Antibiotic resistance tops concerns at infectious diseases conference.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/11/antibiotics.htm
15 Nov 2007
Expert analysis: woman with recent stroke and a patent foramen ovale
Expert analysis: Woman with recent stroke and a patent foramen ovale.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/expert.htm
15 Feb 2008
Test yourself: Travel medicine
Travel medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/test.htm
15 Feb 2008
A different kind of competency
Juan Lopez, a Hispanic man with limited English proficiency, is admitted to your hospital with severe abdominal pain. You think he needs surgery, but he insists that the pain is the result of a hex, and requests treatment from a witch doctor. How do you respond?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/cover.htm
15 Mar 2008
Test yourself: Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/test.htm
15 Mar 2008
Integrative medicine: Coming to a hospital near you
A growing number of hospitals are incorporating complementary and alternative medicine into their treatment through the use of so-called integrative medicine, which blends conventional and nonconventional tactics rather than using one or the other exclusively. What do hospitalists need to know about these therapies?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/cover.htm
15 Apr 2008
Identifying personality disorders
An excerpt from “Psychiatry Essentials for Primary Care,”� new from ACP Press.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/disorders.htm
15 Apr 2008
Hospitals tighten rules on gifts, meals, education from pharma
Some institutions, mainly academic medical centers, are taking a newer, hard-line approach to physicians’ relationships with pharma. Our cover story looks at some of these new policies as well as the potential impact of this growing movement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/05/cover.htm
15 May 2008