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Optimizing medical therapy after stroke

Stroke survivors often leave the hospital with new prescriptions and substantial confusion about how, or even whether, to take them. This leaves internists with the sometimes formidable job of evaluating, prescribing, or tweaking these regimens, identifying and managing adverse effects, and reinforcing education about treatment risks, benefits, and adherence.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/06/stroke.htm
1 Jun 2016

Internal Medicine Meeting 2016 goes to Washington

This issue covers topics such as colorectal cancer screening, the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, and management of stroke patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/06/editors.htm
1 Jun 2016

MKSAP Quiz: 10-year history of fear and anxiety

A 26-year-old woman is evaluated for a 10-year history of recurrent episodes of acute-onset feelings of fear and anxiety. These episodes initially occurred approximately 4 times per year but for the past 3 months have been occurring once or twice per month, especially when she is under stress. She describes the episodes as paroxysmal attacks of fear and anxiety associated with a dry mouth and a consistent “roller coaster” sensation in her stomach that typically last 15 seconds to 1 minute. Following a physical exam, brain MRI, and electroencephalogram, what is the most likely diagnosis?
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/21/3.htm
21 Jun 2016

Keys to taking a neurological history

The most powerful tool in neurology is the history and physical exam, including the requirement that patients walk in the presence of neurologists, in order to better understand symptoms.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/07/neurology.htm
1 Jul 2016

Internal Medicine Meeting 2016 goes to Washington

This issue covers topics such as the proper way to do a neurological workup, recently approved forms of insulin, and how to address nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/07/editors.htm
1 Jul 2016

MKSAP Quiz: difficult-to-treat migraine

A 30-year-old woman is evaluated for difficult-to-treat migraine. She has had severe headaches, usually on the first day of menses, since menarche. The pain is hemicranial, pulsatile, and associated with severe nausea and vomiting but no aura. She frequently awakens with the attack already in progress. A series of drug regimens have become ineffective in controlling pain. Following physical and neurological exams, what is the most appropriate next step in treatment?
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/09/20/3.htm
20 Sep 2016

Safe prescribing can lessen overdose risk

In what one commentator called an “appalling” finding, 90% of patients in a recent study admitted to a hospital with a prescription opioid overdose eventually received another opioid prescription##mdash;often from the same clinician. Efforts to improve safe prescribing hope to fix the problem.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/10/overdose.htm
1 Oct 2016

Differentiating ‘dizziness' and vertigo

Because patients use these two terms to describe a broad range of sensations, the symptom can pose a diagnostic challenge.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/01/dizziness-vertigo.htm
1 Jan 2017

Textbook edition reflects evolution of hospital medicine

The first update of “Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine” exemplifies how hospital medicine has evolved and the skills that hospitalists need to have.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/02/textbook.htm
1 Feb 2017

PERSPECTIVES 4 ACP Internist Last November, the debate over ...

recommendations from theAmerican College of Chest Physicians, theAmerican College of Emergency Physicians/American Academy of Neurology, and theAmerican Heart Association/AmericanStroke Association.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/04/acpi-201704-dynamed_t1.pdf
23 Mar 2017

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