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The November/December issue of ACP Internist is online, featuring stories about:
Marijuana requests: Relief or ‘permission’?
Fourteen states have legalized medical marijuana. Internists who have issued the controversial authorizations describe how they sort out legitimate uses from trivial requests.
Know the patient to achieve statin benefits.
That statins work is without question. And with costs falling due to many drugs in the class going generic, physicians are now refining when to prescribe the ubiquitous drug class based on the degree of risk.
Wisconsin clinic's patients save time by ‘rooming’ themselves.
An outpatient family practice clinic tried to reduce wait times by letting patients direct themselves to open exam rooms. As a result, wait times fell by half and patient satisfaction rose to its highest levels in 11 months.
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