<div id="article-content-body"><p>Our office has devised a system to reduce the number of expired drug samples that must be discarded.</p></div>
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Having suffered many assaults on my eardrums from patient vocalizations during auscultation for carotid bruits, I now ask patients to take a deep...
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<p>What else can you offer patients with depression and other mood disorders? Listed here are some organizations that provide educational conferences,...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>My patient is an 82-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Recently updated clinical guidelines reflect major changes in our understanding of and approach to heart failure.<sup>1,2</sup> In my...
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<p>When you palpate for inguinal hernias, ask the patient to take a deep breath and then bear down in a moderately strenuous Valsalva maneuver—rather...
HANI RAOUL KHOUZAM, MD, MPH University of California, San Francisco Dr Khouzam is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco Medical School, Fresno Medical Education Program; clinical instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston; and former visiting lecturer in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City. He is also staff psychiatrist, medical director, and interim chief of the chemical dependency treatment program in the Veterans Affairs Central California Health Care System in Fresno.
HANI RAOUL KHOUZAM, MD, MPH Universit...
Although most persons with depression can be successfully treated with medications and/or psychotherapy, many do not seek treatment. Left untreated, depression leads to deterioration of interpersonal,...
Drugs may confer serious risks along with substantial therapeutic benefits. The aging of the population and the trend toward increased outpatient drug use—and hence the likely rise in adverse...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>One day after he had been hit in the left eye with a drinking glass, a 48-year-old man sought medical attention. He could see only light and shadows...
A quick test for detecting Alzheimer disease is to tell the patient that you will try to shake his or her hand—but at the same time tell him not to do it.
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<p>A 77-year-old man complains of deep, aching pain of several months' duration in his left thigh that is exacerbated by both standing and walking....
