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  • Can a humanities background prevent physician burnout?
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 225-226; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86b.04019

    Osler urged physicians to study the humanities. Can it prevent professional dissatisfaction and burnout?

  • Personalizing guideline-driven cancer screening
    Gautam Mankaney, MD and Carol A. Burke, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 228-230; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.19037

    Screening can lead to early diagnosis and prevent death from cancer, but the topic provokes controversy.

  • Rapidly progressive pleural effusion January 2019
    Scott Davidson, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 236; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.04001

    Readers comment about deviation from guidelines during treatment of a patient with rapidly progressive pleural effusion (January 2019) and the effect of metformin on vitamin B12 levels (January 2019).

  • In reply: Rapidly progressive pleural effusion January 2019
    Zaid Zoumot, MBSS, Samar Farha, MD and Ali Wahla, MBSS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 236; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.04002
  • Metformin for type 2 diabetes January 2019
    Robert S. Moskowitz, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2019, 86 (4) 237; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.04003

    Readers comment about deviation from guidelines during treatment of a patient with rapidly progressive pleural effusion (January 2019) and the effect of metformin on vitamin B12 levels (January 2019).

  • Flu or strep? Rapid tests can mislead
    Burke A. Cunha, MD, MACP and Nonso Osakwe, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 161-162; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18094

    Group A streptococci are common colonizers with viral pharyngitis.

  • Hypertension guidelines January 2019
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 210;

    The article Aleyadeh W, Hutt-Centeno E, Ahmed HM, Shah NP. Hypertension guidelines: treat patients, not numbers. Cleve Clin J Med 2019; 86(1):47–56. doi:10.3949/ccjm.86a.18027 contained an error.

  • The tests that we order define us
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 150; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86b.03019

    In practice we balance the inputs from Watson, “Dr. Google,” our experience, and the specific data from the patient.

  • Cancer screening: A modest proposal for prevention
    Myung S. Kim, MD, Go Nishikawa, MD and Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 157-160; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18092

    Large-scale cancer screening programs have the unintended consequences of false-positive results and overdiagnosis.

  • Assessing liver fibrosis without biopsy in patients with HCV or NAFLD
    Tavankit Singh, MD, Daniela S. Allende, MD and Arthur J. McCullough, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 179-186; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.17118

    Biopsy is still the gold standard, but methods based on clinical information and on imaging are emerging.

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