Volume 54 - Issue 2 - February 2014

Consultant

travel history
travel history
06/22/2017

Ronald Rubin, MD—Series Editor

Ronald Rubin, MD—Series Editor ...
A college senior visits the office to seek knowledge and advice regarding on an upcoming summer of volunteer work in Africa.
06/22/2017
Hypertension
Hypertension
02/25/2014

Speakers: Louis Kuritzky, MD, Jeffrey P. Levine, MD, MPH, and Martha M. Funnell, MS, RN, CDE

Speakers: Louis Kuritzky, MD, Jeffrey...
More than 30% of adults in the United States have hypertension, although more of the cases are uncontrolled than are controlled.
02/25/2014
adherence
adherence
02/25/2014

Speaker: Martha M. Funnell, MS, RN, CDE

Speaker: Martha M. Funnell, MS, RN, C...
Healthcare professionals should consider why people do not take their diabetes medications and what happens when they discontinue the drugs.
02/25/2014
Diet
Diet
02/25/2014

Speaker: Linda M. Delahanty, MS, RN, LDN

Speaker: Linda M. Delahanty, MS, RN, ...
It is much more important to have a balanced diet for the long-term instead of relying on a short-term plan to lose weight.
02/25/2014
Nutrition
Nutrition
02/25/2014

Speaker: Linda M. Delahanty, MS, RD, LDN, and Donna Ryan, MD

Speaker: Linda M. Delahanty, MS, RD, ...
With a growing number of obese people in the United States, healthcare professionals are seeking the best way to treat the epidemic.
02/25/2014
Cardiometabolic risk
Cardiometabolic risk
02/25/2014
A 69-year-old man seen because of a pruritic pretibial rash of 3 months' duration.
02/25/2014
Lipids
Lipids
02/25/2014

 Speakers: Peter H. Jones, MD, Benjamin Ansell, MD, and Michael Bloch, MD

 Speakers: Peter H. Jones, MD, B...
The introduction of statin therapies has helped healthcare professionals treat patients with cardiovascular disease.
02/25/2014
Diabetes Q&A
Diabetes Q&A
02/25/2014

Speakers: Steven Milligan, MD, Kevin A. Peterson, MD, and Mark E. Molitch, MD


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Speakers: Steven Milligan, MD, Kevin ...
At the 2013 Cardiometabolic Risk Summit, the importance of diagnosing and treating prediabetes was discussed.
02/25/2014
Cardiometabolic risk
Cardiometabolic risk
02/25/2014
Primary care has made a significant impact on the prevention of cardiovascular disease—to the tune of 1.1 million deaths averted between 1970 and 20101—but diabetes is on the rise globally and health care...
02/25/2014
DermClinic
DermClinic
02/24/2014
David L. Kaplan—Series Editor Univers...
This 72-year-old male presented for evaluation of a pigmented eruption over several months on both lower extremities that was asymptomatic.
02/24/2014
Herpes zoster
Herpes zoster
02/24/2014
This 48-year-old female presented for evaluation of tender lesions on her left arm of 5 days duration. She denies any exposure history. She has been taking ibuprofen as needed for muscle pains or headache ...
02/24/2014
Drug Eruption
Drug Eruption
02/21/2014
This 68-year-old female presented with a sore lesion on her left arm of 5 days duration.
02/21/2014
flagellate
flagellate
02/21/2014
A 53-year-old Asian male presented with a 3 week history of a pruritic rash over his entire body.
02/21/2014
Eczema
Eczema
02/21/2014

Seamus Cobb, LT, MC, USN, Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida
and Robert P. Lennon, LT, MC, USN,
Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan

Seamus Cobb, LT, MC, USN, Naval Hospi...
A 16-year-old male presents with 3 weeks of painful, pruritic, peeling hands.
02/21/2014
macular rash
macular rash
02/21/2014
A 24-year-old male Marine Corps member presented with a 5-day history of a nonpruritic macular rash on the plantar and dorsal surfaces of his feet and gluteal cleft.
02/21/2014
Photoclinic
Photoclinic
02/21/2014
A 34-year-old male presented with itchy lesions on the ankles, wrists, and dorsa of hands.
02/21/2014
Dyspnea
Dyspnea
02/21/2014

Nisha Gidwani, MD, and Samuel Louie, MD
University of California, Davis

Nisha Gidwani, MD, and Samuel Louie, ...
Dyspnea in adults—whether acute (minutes to a few days) or chronic (weeks to months or longer)—is a common diagnostic challenge, forcing the physician to be perceptive to clinical clues.
02/21/2014
Case In Point
Case In Point
02/21/2014

Trisha Patel, Katherine Israel, Casey Dunn, Ahmed Almomani MBBS, and Matthew Dacso, MD

Trisha Patel, Katherine Israel, Casey...
A 22-year-old Hispanic male inmate with no remarkable past medical or social history presented to our hospital with a persistent, diffuse, erythematous eruption.
02/21/2014
doctor's stories
doctor's stories
02/21/2014
For doctors, life is a learning experience. It entails learning how to deal with insurance companies and hospital personnel, as well as reading journals and completing CME. But it is so much more—it is...
02/21/2014
What's Your Diagnosis?
What's Your Diagnosis?
02/20/2014

Alexander K.C. Leung, MD, and Benjamin Barankin, MD

Alexander K.C. Leung, MD, and Benjami...
A 25-year-old female presented with a 10-year history of intermittent black secretions from bilateral malar cheeks.
02/20/2014
Pneumonia
Pneumonia
02/20/2014

Hitesh Agrawal, MD, Safdar S. Khan, MD, Jack Nickless, MD, Gunjan Dokania, MD, and Margo Bell, MD

Hitesh Agrawal, MD, Safdar S. Khan, M...
A 20-year-old young woman presented to the emergency department with a 4-day history of sudden-onset pain and tightness in her lower chest.
02/20/2014
Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial Fibrillation
02/20/2014

Eric A. Dietrich, PharmD, BCPS, and Louis Kuritzky, MD

Eric A. Dietrich, PharmD, BCPS, and L...
The advent of a variety of methodologically new antithrombotic agents has provided clinicians with important choices to make when selecting treatments for commonplace syndromes, such as atrial...
02/20/2014
Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism
02/19/2014
A collection of photo-based cases on embolisms.
02/19/2014
hypoandrogenism
hypoandrogenism
02/19/2014

PJ Kepper, BS, MS, Neil Baum, MD

PJ Kepper, BS, MS, Neil Baum, MD...
This article will review the pathophysiology of hypoandrogenism, evaluating and diagnosing the condition, and the options for treating this common medical problem with testosterone replacement therapy. ...
02/19/2014
Depression
Depression
02/19/2014

Daniel S. Felix, PhD, W. David Robinson, PhD, Jenenne A. Geske, PhD, Paige W. Toller, PhD, Elisabeth Backer, MD

Daniel S. Felix, PhD, W. David R...
A physician’s ability to recognize depression depends almost entirely upon their interactions and communication with patients.
02/19/2014
Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis
02/19/2014

Gregory W. Rutecki, MD

Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
It is essential to realize that an anaphylactic reaction can be uniphasic, biphasic, or protracted.
02/19/2014
Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis
02/19/2014

Gregory W. Rutecki, MD

Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
It is essential to realize that an anaphylactic reaction can be uniphasic, biphasic, or protracted.
02/19/2014
Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis
02/19/2014

Gregory W. Rutecki, MD

Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
It is essential to realize that an anaphylactic reaction can be uniphasic, biphasic, or protracted.
02/19/2014
acne
acne
02/18/2014

Louis Kuritzky, MD, Kristin Steffes, MD, William Steffes, MD, and David Wymer

Louis Kuritzky, MD, Kristin...
This article provides an overview of acne vulgaris, with a focus on inflammatory and post-adolescent acne, and outlines a framework that primary care physicians can use to effectively treat these patients. ...
02/18/2014
Primary Care
Primary Care
02/18/2014

Richard Colgan, MD

Richard Colgan, MD
Having determined to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a pastor, Schweitzer began the study of medicine at the University of Strasbourg in 1905.
02/18/2014
American Heart Association
American Heart Association
02/18/2014
The CDC estimates that 600,000 people die from heart disease in the United States every year—which translates to cardiovascular disease accounting for 1 in every 4 deaths.1 While the statistics are...
02/18/2014
Chest pain
Chest pain
02/18/2014

Tien Dong, MD
University of Chicago Medicine
 

Tien Dong, MD University of Chicago M...
A 47-year-old Caucasian female was seen for the first time in a primary care clinic for multiple emergency room visits for atypical chest pain.
02/18/2014