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How to talk with your family about end of life care

Like last year, I’m participating in the Engage with Grace blog rally. I’ll be signing off until Monday. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us...

The joys of practicing rural emergency medicine

by Edwin Leap, MD I practice in the rural, northwest corner of South Carolina, also known as “The Upstate.” It is a place of expansive lakes, white-water rivers and the mist covered foothills of...

Which drugs increase the risk of falling in the elderly?

Originally published in Insidermedicine Three distinct types of drugs that affect mental processes can increase the risk of falling when taken by adults over 60, according to research published in...

Baby boomers don’t receive enough preventive health

Originally published in MedPage Today by Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today Staff Writer Only a quarter of baby boomers take advantage of preventive services such as flu vaccines and cancer screenings,...

What Lego would look like in a CT scan

Have you ever wanted your Lego bricks to undergo a CT scan? Well, wonder no more. Someone did it. From the commentary: “This is a volume rendering based on the axial scan. Note that...

How the mammogram and Pap smear debates ignore the uninsured

by Jeoffry B.Gordon, MD, MPH The recent recommendation of the US Preventive Services Task Force against routine screening mammograms for healthy, low risk women under the age of fifty has...

Doctors can improve treating LDL cholesterol

Originally posted in Insidermedicine Identification and treatment of individuals with high LDL or “bad” cholesterol has improved in recent years, but patients are still slipping through...

The health reform politics of mammograms and breast cancer screening

Originally published in MedPage Today by Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today Washington Correspondent The emotional debate over a federal panel’s proposal to end routine mammograms for women in...

A vocal minority of skeptical doctors are against the H1N1 flu vaccine

My position on the H1N1 flu vaccine is clear: everyone should get it. But not every physician shares that sentiment. The Washington Post reports that there are a minority who are unconvinced of the...

Informed consent is missing from Pap smears and cervical cancer screening

by Joel Sherman, MD The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) has just revised their guidelines for Pap smears under some pressure. This resulted from an Annals of Internal Medicine...