More articles from Editorial
- Perioperative medicine: Combining the science and the art
Although we may wish for “cookbook” guidelines, often we must practice the “art” of medicine.
- Women and HIV: An expanded perspective
HIV preys on the vulnerable. Testing is crucial. Pre-exposure prophlyaxis is an attractive concept but an incomplete solution.
- Treating epilepsy in the elderly: More art than science
When treating patients, one size does not fit all—and especially so with the elderly.
- When are effective medications just too expensive?
Physicians may have been taught that it isn’t their job to think about costs—but they should.
- Dense breasts and legislating medicine
As with accelerated drug approval, mandated disclosure of breast density has uncertain efficacy.
- Another perspective: Reducing the overtreatment of pneumonia
Needed are better and faster ways to diagnose pneumonia and find the cause.
- Postoperative pain: Meeting new expectations
Patients who need surgery ask, “How much pain will I have, and how will you manage it?”
- Electronic health records: We need to find needles, not stack more hay
We need a system that extends our abilities and improves the care we give—and we don’t have it yet.
- Does coronary artery calcification scoring still have a role in practice?
Despite more than 2 decades of use and data from hundreds of thousands of patients, the test remains poorly understood.
- What should be the interval between bone density screenings?
Doctors should not order unnecessary and expensive tests and should not recommend frequent repeated testing that does not benefit the patient.