ACP Internist is now online and coming to your mailbox

The March issue of ACP Internist addresses the latest in internal medicine:

Diagnosing a disorder with few symptoms. Hypercalcemia can have absent, few or nondifferential symptoms, but the condition can indicate the presence of major diseases such as breast cancer. Experts review how to quickly make a diagnosis.

Open access medical records require an open mind by doctors. Patients have always been able to review their records, but making this a routine practice has most patients enthused and some physicians worried. Learn how some primary care practices are applying open access to medical records to improve patient communication and compliance. And, tell us whether you'd ever allow open-access medical records in your practice at our latest poll.

Many malaria prophylaxis options, but none perfect. Malaria research is turning from short-term prophylaxis for travelers to efforts toward elimination and eradication. Drug costs and new ethics rules for research are key drivers of this new direction.

Also, Test yourself with the MKSAP Quiz on a 60-year-old man who is evaluated for a growing and bleeding skin lesion on his right wrist.