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Current Issue - July 2009


Featured Articles

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Medicine and Genetics

A brave new world of consumer gene tests

A brave new world of consumer gene tests

By Jessica Berthold

Direct-to-consumer tests are easy, cheap—and sometimes wrong. Yet, patients are handing them to their doctors on a weekly basis and asking for advice. Learn how to work with patients after they’ve sought out genome-wide analysis and then bring the results to doctors to sort out subtle meanings from often fallible tests.

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Cardiology and Diabetes

Cardiac care critical for diabetic patients

Cardiac care critical for diabetic patients

By Stacey Butterfield

Even the experts feel like they’re missing potential cardiological complications in diabetic patients. They consider how to screen this population effectively for the 3% who experience cardiac-related deaths.

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Perspectives

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Mindful Medicine

Start at the top to get to the bottom of a diagnosis

By Jerome Groopman, FACP, and Pamela Hartzband, FACP

ACP Member C. Christopher Smith reconsiders a patient’s self-reported diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome to uncover the true cause of his symptoms.

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Leadership Day 2009

Leadership Day launches new legislation for primary care

By Stacey Butterfield

ACP members lobby their congressional representatives to plead their case for saving primary care, as well as introduce legislation that proposes incentives to pay for care coordination and medical education.

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Practice Management

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Practice Rx

Future claims: Moving toward ICD-10 and new standards

By Debra Lansey and Neil Kirschner

ICD-10 and CPT codes are changing. ACP’s practice management staff advise how to stay up-to-date across the entire office.

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CPII Tips

The stimulus package and buying EHRs

By CPII Staff

The recent federal economic stimulus package set aside more than $17 billion for doctors and hospitals to adopt EHRs. ACP has developed extended guides to answer physicians’ questions about the incentives.

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College News

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Obituaries

By ACP Staff

Included in this month’s listings are former ACP President Ralph O. Wallerstein, MACP.

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More Internal Medicine 2009 coverage

More Internal Medicine 2009 coverage

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Cartoon Caption Contest

This issue's winning cartoon caption was submitted by Bryan D. Kraft, ACP Associate Member. He will receive a $50 gift certificate good toward any ACP product, program or service. Thanks to all who voted!

ACP Internist Weekly

From the June 30, 2009 edition

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