The next issue of ACP Internist is online and coming to your mailbox
The January issue of ACP Internist includes stories on politics and medicine and antidepressants in primary care, as well as a new column on framing risk and benefits of treatments.
Lawmakers try to ‘script’ what doctors say. State legislatures are drafting laws that would mandate what doctors tell their patients about culturally controversial topics such as abortion or guns in the home, or even purely clinical issues such as breast cancer. How involved should politicians be in the exam room?
Antidepressants no easy fix in primary care. Is depression on the rise, or just prescribing for it? There's now an educational burden on internists to learn the proper role of medications in mental health.
Framing risk, benefits perilous for physicians and patients. A new column debuts, outlining how physicians can properly frame risks and benefits of treatments so patients can make the best medical decisions for themselves.
These stories and the latest Test Yourself with MKSAP question on a six-week history of cough are online, as is an obituary for former ACP Regent and ACP Internist editorial board member Richard Neubauer, MD, MACP.