Current Issue - July 2009
Featured Articles
Medicine and Genetics
A brave new world of consumer gene tests
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.
Cardiology and Diabetes
Cardiac care critical for diabetic patients
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.
Perspectives
Mindful Medicine
Start at the top to get to the bottom of a diagnosis
ACP Member C. Christopher Smith reconsiders a patient’s self-reported diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome to uncover the true cause of his symptoms.
Leadership Day 2009
Leadership Day launches new legislation for primary care
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.
Practice Management
Practice Rx
Future claims: Moving toward ICD-10 and new standards
ICD-10 and CPT codes are changing. ACP’s practice management staff advise how to stay up-to-date across the entire office.
CPII Tips
The stimulus package and buying EHRs
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.
College News
Obituaries
Included in this month’s listings are former ACP President Ralph O. Wallerstein, MACP.
More Internal Medicine 2009 coverage
ACP Internist created a photo gallery of scenes from Internal Medicine 2009.
Your Thoughts Exactly:
Internists and social media
ACP Internist is looking at how internists are applying social media to their personal lives, professional careers and clinical practices. Tell us how you're using social media.
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
- 7% of patients not told about abnormal lab results
- No need to monitor bisphosphonate effects in first three years
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