Some 20 years ago, general internal medicine residencies and divisions were organized to move training outside the hospital and to produce a new generation of general internists for primary care. Despite public and private support for such training, the number of general internists from these special...
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Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Ore Bruce Goldberg MD Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon, Portland, Ore Wendy Bjornson MPH Additional information This project was funded by the American Lung Association of Oregon and the American Academy of Family Practice. Ri...
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We report the case of a 69-year-old man who was admitted to the Internal Medicine ward due to obstructive acute kidney injury of unknown origin. The patient was submitted to urinary catheterization and to right percutaneous nephrostomy. Two weeks after admission he developed a large left pleural...
Methods This 6 months study, including control and intervention groups, took place in the internal medicine ward of a Swiss hospital and in surrounding community pharmacies. Patients from the control group received usual care. The intervention group's patients underwent a set of pharmaceutical ...
Mainstreaming opioid addiction treatment has many advantages; its success will depend on resolution of ethical and delivery system issues as well as improved and expanded training of physicians in addiction medicine. The lifetime prevalence of heroin use has again increased in the past decade; almost...
31,34 Olesen149 recently admonished: "It is time for many practitioners of medicine to change their views and to acknowledge that migraine is a neurobiologic, not a psychogenic disorder." Even the most prominent skeptics would agree that millions of people have widespread, idiopathic chronic pain...
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