A Barbecued Chicken Wing: What Wisdom About Maintenance of Certification?
CDC: One in 100 Contact Lens Wearers Follows All Directions
It's no wonder contact lenses are associated with infections. Just about everyone who wears them engages in "risky behavior' involving improper care and handling.
A Young Male with a Rash of Scales
The asymptomatic rash came on quickly and is prominent on the boy's trunk and arms. Close-ups of the lesions in these slides may help you make the Dx.
Do Physician Health Programs Increase Physician Suicides?
Who, exactly, is protecting doctors from being misdiagnosed, mistreated, and abused?
A 54-year-old Woman with Chest Pain Radiating to Jaw
The patient felt like her "head would explode" from the pain on the left side of her face. Watch the ED video and formulate your own diagnosis.
"Please empathize with me, Doctor!"
Doctors who don't know their patients make easily avoidable technical mistakes that can have tragic consequences. The best way "to do no harm" is to know and understand your patient.
Is Medical School an Anti-Mentorship Program?
Is med school now a place where students meet doctors they'd never want to become? Is anyone modeling the happy doc in solo practice?
Trust Your Instincts When Treating Patients: Healthcare Career Insights
Must reads about the latest news and trends in healthcare careers. . .
A 5-year-old with a Hand Burn
The mother reports the child spilled hot liquid while removing a cup from the microwave. Does the injury match the claim?
New Eating Disorder in Men: Workout Supplement Abuse
More men are turning not to illegal anabolic steroids but to legal appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs, ones that pose a health threat all their own.
Physician Burnout is Physician Abuse
How do you know if you're being abused? See if any of the video testimony here rings true.
Pleuritic Chest Pain in a 23-year-old Woman
The patient reports the chest pain began 6 days ago during a vacation abroad. She denies any injury. What does the chest x-ray reveal?
Thinking as a Lifesaver: What’s the Code for That?
My dermatologist had a gut feeling about a spot on my chest; that feeling saved my life. Code for "gut feeling," please.
An 8-year-old Boy with Acute Facial Swelling
Four days of facial swelling was preceded by several months of fatigue, leg pain, rapid weight gain. Watch the video exam for more clues to Dx.
FDA Approves Drug for Basal Cell Carcinoma
Sonidegib becomes second hedgehog inhibitor for locally advanced disease.
Putting Humanity and the Humanities Back Into Medicine
We need doctors who understand life and people, not just lab test readouts and scientific papers.
6 Fascinating Tidbits: July Primary Care Roundup
Sunscreen Alert: 6 Ways to Avoid Getting Burned
These slides summarize the latest sun safety dos and don’ts, providing the most sound and sensible patient education recommendations under the sun.
6 (More) Terrible Medical Sentences
Now . . . the follow-up to the sequel you've all been waiting for! We proudly present half a dozen unadulterated pearls of clinical wisdom--fully illustrated--culled from articles submitted by physicians to this web site over the years.
Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome
With assisted reproduction widespread, all physicians, including primary care providers, should be familiar with presenting symptoms of OHSS.
