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- Short and sweet: Writing better consult notes in the era of the electronic medical record
Avoid repeating everything already in the record, but include your reasoning and teaching points.
- When should I discuss driving with my older patients?
Discuss driving safety with any patient who is age 80 or older, `or who has a high-risk medical condition.
- Is antibiotic treatment indicated in a patient with a positive urine culture but no symptoms?
Some groups should be screened and treated, eg, pregnant women and patients undergoing an invasive urologic procedure.
- Diabetes therapy and cancer risk (October 2014)
A reader comments on the risk of cancer with diabetes drugs (October 2014).
- Sarcoidal infiltration of tattoos
Corticosteroid treatment resulted in clinical improvement after 3 months.
- Perioperative medicine: Combining the science and the art
Although we may wish for “cookbook” guidelines, often we must practice the “art” of medicine.
- In Reply: Diabetes therapy and cancer risk (October 2014)
A reader comments on the risk of cancer with diabetes drugs (October 2014).
- A 41-year-old man with abdominal pain
His symptoms and imaging findings suggested an infarction in the spleen, but what caused the infarction?
- Ebola—lessons still to be learned
So far, the disease has barely touched our country, but it has had a big impact on our health care system and our national psyche.

