Medical Practice

Magazine articles on medical practice and technical issues of treatment.

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American Family Physician October 15, 2004 Kathy Soch	Diary From a Week in Pactice A family practitioner remembers to put the chart aside and go to the patient for the answers... Refers a patient to a rheumatologist... Changes meds for a patient with advanced dementia... etc.
American Family Physician October 1, 2004 Mark H. Ebell	Epstein-Barr Virus Infectious Mononucleosis Infectious mononucleosis should be suspected in patients 10 to 30 years of age who present with sore throat and significant fatigue, palatal petechiae, posterior cervical or auricular adenopathy, marked adenopathy, or inguinal adenopathy.
American Family Physician October 1, 2004 Kucik, Clenney & Phelan	Management of Acute Nasal Fractures Treatment in the primary care setting begins with evaluating the injury, taking an accurate history of the situation in which the injury occurred, and ascertaining how the face and nose appeared and functioned before the injury occurred.
American Family Physician October 1, 2004 Thomas M. Zizic	Pharmacologic Prevention of Osteoporotic Fractures Of the drugs that have been approved for the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis, the bisphosphonates (risedronate and alendronate) are most effective in reducing the risk of vertebral and nonvertebral fractures.
American Family Physician October 1, 2004 Nancy Beth Grossman	Blunt Trauma in Pregnancy Trauma is the most common cause of nonobstetric death among pregnant women in the United States. Electronic fetal monitoring currently is the most accurate measure of fetal status after trauma, although the optimal duration of monitoring has not been established.
Science News October 2, 2004 Janet Raloff	A Guggul Prescription for Drug Interactions A study finds that the herbal product interferes with how long some medicines circulate in blood and therefore their efficacy.
Managed Care September 2004 Tony Berberabe	Can Physician and Health Plan Get Together Over Guidelines? Physicians are not the only problem. Health plans too often view guidelines as rigid routines rather than flexible aids to good practice.
Managed Care September 2004 Michael D. Cabana et al.	Improving Physician Attendance At Educational Seminars Sponsored By Managed Care Organizations Although interactive educational seminars that target physicians require a large investment of resources, they can be cost-effective if medical care is improved as a result.
Managed Care September 2004	Cost-Related Underuse of Heart Meds Leads to Cardiac Complications The study is significant because it is the first nationally representative longitudinal study to demonstrate that patients with serious chronic illnesses experience adverse health events when they restrict their use of prescription drugs due to cost.
Managed Care September 2004	Four Physician Specialties Report Double-Digit Gains Cardiologists, dermatologists, gastroenterologists, and pathologists in particular, enjoyed the largest increases in compensation in 2003.
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