More articles from Editorial
- Labels matter: Challenging conversations or challenging people?
Caring for patients is a complex, intricate, intimate privilege. To characterize it otherwise is to not fully understand it.
- Bedside manners: How to deal with delirium
Delirium is often overlooked. Clinical observation remains important.
- Renal denervation: Are we on the right path?
Before renal denervation can be a mainstream therapy, we need proof that it reduces blood pressure or clinical events.
- Whether to anticoagulate: Toward a more reasoned approach
The patient’s life expectancy and personal preferences are important and affect the decision.
- Statin therapy in the frail elderly: A nuanced decision
Clinicians—and patients—may reasonably feel there is value in statin therapy—even in advanced frailty.
- It’s time to consider pharmacotherapy for obesity
Consider using chronic weight-loss medications as adjunctive therapy if lifestyle and behavioral strategies are ineffective.
- Bedbugs: Awareness is key
Bedbugs are back, and they are everywhere. Not all who are bitten have reactions.
- When the tail wags the dog: Clinical skills in the age of technology
Old-fashioned clinical skills are more relevant than ever in an era of technology.
- Thrombolysis in submassive pulmonary embolism: Finding the balance
In massive pulmonary embolism, thrombolytic therapy is usually indicated; in submassive cases the decision is not so clear.
- Seeking medical care abroad: A challenge to empathy
Empathy for international patients is not merely a matter of kindness, it is central to healing.