Search results for "Mindful Medicine"
Diagnosis, treatment of chronic sinusitis present challenges
Chronic sinusitis can make a patient's life miserable, but it's often a difficult diagnosis to parse.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/01/editors.htm
1 Jan 2011
Are your patients health literate?
Determining a patient's health literacy can be a challenge for physicians.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/07/editors.htm
1 Jul 2011
Dealing with food allergies, chronic pain
Food allergies can represent a complicated area of diagnosis and treatment for internists.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/05/editors.htm
1 May 2011
Reflections from a physician who faced his mortality
A physician who developed severe heartburn recalls his thinking as he reflects on his own progressively severe symptoms and increasingly worrisome differential diagnosis.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/05/doctor.htm
1 May 2013
When you look, but don't see the diagnosis
Gradual yet significant change in a woman's appearance, first noticed by a daughter she hadn't seen for a year, leads to the diagnosis of a common yet frequently missed ailment. Why hadn't those who'd seen the woman daily noticed anything? Intuitive vs. deliberative thought processes made all the difference.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/01/mindful.htm
1 Jan 2011
Seeing the whole diagnostic picture
For a year, one patient saw specialist after specialist and received a different diagnosis each time. Like the story of the blind men and the elephant, specialists often see the patient through only one component of training, as anchoring and availability sneak into their thinking.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/04/mindful.htm
1 Apr 2010
Priming to diagnose an atypical case, avoid representativeness
A patient's deteriorating mental health status points to an underlying cause. But it takes “priming” for an endocrinologist to look for the right diagnosis despite the lack of a prototype case.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/07/mindful.htm
1 Jul 2011
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about bedside vs. scanning and how to take blood pressure.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/09/letters.htm
1 Sep 2011
Time is a hurdle on path to right diagnosis
Two frequently missed diagnoses—intimate partner violence and Sjögren's syndrome—are the focus of this month's issue.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/03/editors.htm
1 Mar 2009
Continuous glucose monitoring—a good fit for primary care?
Continuous glucose monitoring is a complex task, even for physicians. Internists will have to step in to help endocrinologists manage the rising population of type 1 diabetics.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/10/editors.htm
1 Oct 2010