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Complementary and Integrative Health: Where do U.S. Physicians …

WEBComplementary and Integrative Health: Where do U.S. Physicians Stand, and Where Should We? July 28, 2021

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Ethical Considerations on the Use of Fear in Public Health …

WEBThe piece on “Ethical Considerations on the Use of Fear in Public Health Campaigns” offers an in-depth analysis of the ethical pro and cons of fear-based public …

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Timing is Everything: How World Wars and the Red Scare Delayed

WEBBy Brianna Knoll, MD. Peer Reviewed. Achieving universal healthcare is arguably one of the central topics of political debate that our new administration will be …

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Do Hospital Visitors Impact Patient Outcomes

WEBA substantial body of research has identified positive patient outcomes related to open visitation policies, including rapid recovery times and decreased length …

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Questioning the QALY: A closer look at the Quality-Adjusted Life …

WEBThe quality-adjusted life-year, or QALY, is a metric used to evaluate the effectiveness of health interventions in a standardized fashion, with the broader goal of …

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Little Knowledge, Large Problem: Lack of Nutrition and Obesity

WEBBy Elissa Driggin. Peer Reviewed. At almost every single one of my medical school interviews, each interviewer, noting my college major in nutritional science, asked …

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Does Wearable Technology Improve Physical Activity

WEBWearable fitness technology is an intriguing next step in the use of pedometers to increase activity. The use of consumer health trackers has exploded …

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A Brief History of Early Medical Photography

WEBIn psychiatry, the Englishman Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond (1809-1886) gathered a collection of psychiatric portraits to evaluate the insane, and is one of the first …

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Health Care 2008: Where Do the Candidates Stand

WEBWelcome to the first post of our newest series. In this series, we’ll try to cut through some of the media hype and summarize the health care proposals put forward …

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Diet vs. Exercise: Which Is Superior for Weight Loss

WEBA meta-analysis of 28 weight-loss studies by Duhurandhar and colleagues demonstrated that dietary restriction and exercise techniques result in 12-44% and 55 …

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Is it Ethical to ‘Google’ a Patient

WEBWhat is “patient-targeted googling”? Patient-targeted googling (PTG) is the act of searching for information on a patient on social media platforms or publicly …

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The Ethics of Electronic Health Records – Clinical Correlations

WEBFaculty peer reviewed. The 111th Congress allocated $19 billion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 toward the creation of an electronic …

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Special Considerations for Frail Older Patients

WEBBy Jessica K Qiu. Peer Reviewed. In 1998, there were 34 million adults aged 65 years or older in the US.1 By 2030, that number is expected to double.1 This …

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Healthcare (Or Lack Thereof) in Communist Albania

WEBHealthcare in Albania during Communism was based on the Soviet-type Semashko model 1 and was free, since it was centrally owned and directed by the …

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Bloodletting: A Brief Historical Perspective and Modern Medical

WEBHistorians suggest that the classic red-and-white barber pole is linked to bloodletting, with red representing blood and white representing the tourniquet used to …

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Why You Should Think Twice About Using Medical Abbreviations

WEBAfter six months, they found a 29% decrease in abbreviation usage [7]. While not perfect, this system of individualized feedback and “shaming” by comparison is an …

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Outbreak: Toxic Tacos – Clinical Correlations

WEBadmin on December 8th, 2006 - 1:30pm Update: As per today’s 12/8/06 New York Times “health officials and food distributors zeroed in yesterday on a California farm as the …

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Medical Eponyms: Recognizing the Medical Greats

WEBEponyms are prevalent in our medical and common languages. While some medical names are clinically illustrative (like Tetralogy of Fallot3), others are nonspecific …

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Primecuts – This Week In The Journals – Clinical Correlations

WEBBy Deborah Hemel, MD. Faculty Peer Reviewed. One of the many advantages of being on elective this week was that I finally had the pleasure of spending …

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Conscientious Objection in Medicine: A Moral Dilemma

WEBConscientious objection in medicine is the notion that a health care provider can abstain from offering certain types of medical care with which he/she does not …

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Did Abraham Lincoln Have Marfan Syndrome

WEBThe French pediatrician Antoine-Bernard Marfan first described Marfan syndrome at the turn of the 20th century, 30 years after Lincoln’s assassination, in a …

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