In the News

Recognizing, preventing and treating delirium

If you remember only one thing about treating agitation and delirium in the hospital, it should be to avoid benzodiazepines, said Brian Huang, ACP Member, assistant professor of medicine in the division of hospital medicine at the University of California San Diego, during the hospital medicine precourse at Internal Medicine 2011.

History, physical exam important in dermatology diagnosis

At the start of his session on dermatology in the acute care setting, Mark Davis, MD, chair of the division of dermatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., encouraged internists to consult dermatologists about any skin eruption. An hour and many tales from the field later, he'd made a convincing case for this suggestion.

Ethics committee brings medical dilemmas to life

A passerby wandering into the room might have been shocked by the ethics being displayed by physicians on stage during a session on ethical challenges. For example, Kathy Faber-Langendoen, FACP, described how she prescribed opiates for her own mother, and accused physicians of having left her grandmother to die.

Multi-drug diabetes regimens need not be complex

Diabetic progression is almost inevitable, so to help internists sort out which drug to use and when, Anne Peters, FACP, CDE, director of the clinical diabetes programs at the University of Southern California, spoke on “Pharmacotherapy Practices in Type 2 Diabetes.”