Commentary
Managing Your Practice
OSHA revisited
Standards most applicable to medical offices are those dealing with personal protective equipment, bloodborne pathogens, hazard communication, and...
Opinion
Health care in America: Let that tapeworm grow
Might it still be possible to do well while doing good?
Opinion
A 50-year-old White male presented with a 4- to 5-year history of progressively growing violaceous lesions on his left lower extremity
A 50-year-old presented with a 4- to 5-year history of progressively growing violaceous lesions on his left lower extremity, unresponsive to over-...
Commentary
New colorectal cancer data reveal troubling trends
It has become increasingly apparent that the age profile and associated risks for this cancer are rapidly changing.
Commentary
TikTok offers to ‘balance your hormones’ are pure hokum
TikTok hormone-balancing solutions are simply the 21st-century version of the snake oil sold on late-night cable TV in the 1990s.
Opinion
Picking up the premotor symptoms of Parkinson’s
Premotor symptoms such as constipation, hyposmia (loss of sense of smell), and REM sleep behavior disorder may be early symptoms if there is no...
Opinion
Parkinson’s disease: What’s trauma got to do with it?
It may not be only trauma in childhood but also throughout life that might really influence nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in particular...
Opinion
TNT: You need it, but guidelines won’t give it to you
Thoughtfully developed evidence-based guidelines can help family physicians care for patients but guidelines will never comprise all of medicine,...
Opinion
The end of the telemedicine era?
Telemedicine revolutionized outpatient palliative care delivery, but the telemedicine era is evolving.
Commentary
New antiobesity drugs will benefit many. Is that bad?
Patients are regularly seen discontinuing or reducing the dosage of multiple medications as a result of improvements to multiple weight-responsive...
Commentary
Don’t fear testing for, and delabeling, penicillin allergy
Sometimes, we have to take the most expedient action in health care. But most of the time, we should do the right thing, even if it’s harder.