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Patients infected with COVID-19 have overwhelmed hospitals and their personnel.  The consequences of depleted resources, severe stress, and inexperience hold essential lessons. 

Preventing Medical Errors: Pandemic Lessons Learned 

After a virtual visit offering useful medical advice, I have found the patient more likely to follow up. Isn’t that the essence of primary care?

Telemedicine: House Calls for the Millennium

Here’s a call to neither “praise nor bury” the annual physical, but rather to determine its scientific efficacy in specific contexts.

Physical Exams: Where’s the Beef? 

Here’s a review of 6 medical apps that might make your life a little easier. 

Best Medical Apps Reviewed on iMedicalApps

The “annual physical” is archaic. But losing the art of physical exam also harms patients and costs us all a lot of money.

The Annual Physical-RIP? 

What the title doesn't tell you is that these denials are "unexpected." That can only mean more work for multitasking office staff. See if these are common in your practice, and learn how to avoid them. 

5 Common Practice Denials in Internal Medicine and Remedies 

Denied claims take revenue off your balance sheet and frustrate the staff tasked with processing them. Are any of the top 5 here familiar to you? 

5 Common Practice Denials in Family and Internal Medicine 

Patients coinfected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV can develop rapidly progressive liver fibrosis.

In HIV-HCV–Coinfected Patients, How to Avoid Hepatic Decompensation?

First of all, it is important to know what exactly is meant by “the best.”

Is There a Best Regimen for Initial Antiretroviral Therapy?

Would you worry about this asymptomatic lesion? What are the symptoms of achalasia? Test your clinical mettle against this week's 5 questions.

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