ACP Internist is now online and coming to your mailbox

The October issue of ACP Internist is online, featuring stories on the following:

• Changes to Medicaid divide states, doctors. States get the final say in whether to expand their Medicaid programs and how to accomplish that. The resulting disparities have prompted physicians to get involved to secure access for their patients and funding for themselves, their practices and their hospitals.
• Diabetic foot care begins with bare feet. Internists can head up a care team that intervenes early and often in preventing the ulcerations, pressure points and neuropathies that can progress to infection and possibly amputation.
• President's Message: Maintenance of Certification is needed, but it needs to change. ACP President Molly Cooke, MD, FACP, writes that the College will continue to press for a process that ensures physicians remain up-to-date on clinical knowledge, but in a much less burdensome way than the current methods.

Don't miss Test Yourself with the MKSAP Quiz, info on C. difficile in the outpatient setting, and our new acrostic puzzle feature, Crossed Words, which challenges readers to unlock clues placed horizontally in rows to reveal an answer written vertically.