Prevalence of Childhood and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity from 2003 to 2010 in an Integrated Health Care Delivery System by Scott Gee, Debbie Chin, Lynn Ackerson, Dewey Woo, Amanda Howell

“…Physician training, practice tools, automated BMI reminders and performance feedback improved the frequency and quality of physician counseling. …”
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Exploring the Role of Radiosurgery for Atypical Meningiomas: Addressing Suboptimal Local Control in High-Risk Patients by Sanjeev Sreenivasan, MD, MCh, Salem Najjar, BA, Daniel Ma, MD, Sabrina L. Begley, BS, Yen-Ruh Wuu, MD, Zaker Rana, MD, Emile Gogineni, DO, Michael Schulder, MD, Anuj Goenka, MD

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Assessing the capture of sociodemographic information in electronic medical records to inform clinical decision making. by Rawan Abulibdeh, Karen Tu, Debra A Butt, Anthony Train, Noah Crampton, Ervin Sejdić

“…The objective of this work was to assess the content of family physicians' electronic medical records and characterize the quality of the documentation of sociodemographic characteristics. …”
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Teaching Ethics in Canadian Gastroenterology by Guido Van Rosendaal

“…A firm foundation in medical bioethics is essential to the education of any physician. The relative importance of specific ethical principles may vary with the physician's specialty, depending on the nature of the problems dealt with or the services provided in each discipline. …”
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Roland Scriptoris ou de Lisbonne: un médecin, un professeur et un clerc portugais au XVe siècle by Mário Farelo

“…This article aims at the biographical study of a Portuguese physician of the fifteenth century, still insufficiently known by the Portuguese historiography. …”
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Correlation of Color Doppler with Multidetector CT Angiography Findings in Carotid Artery Stenosis by Živorad N. Savic, Lazar B. Davidovic, Dragan Ž. Sagic, Milan D. Brajovic, Srdjan S. Popovic

“…All US examinations were always carried out by the same physician-angiologist, while all CT examinations were always carried out by the same physician-radiologist. …”
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Bilateral Facial Diplegia: A Rare Presenting Symptom of Lyme by John Ashurst, Matthew Perry

“…Lyme disease is a common disease that is faced by the physician but also acts a mimicker of many other disease processes. …”
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Estimating the Burden of Illness Related to Genital Warts in Russia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Vera N. Prilepskaya, Mikhail Gomberg, Smita Kothari, Karen Yee, Amit Kulkarni, Suzanne M. Garland, Anna R. Giuliano

“…Prevalence was obtained for each physician and calculated into a single estimate across all physician types. …”
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A Rare Culprit of Spontaneous Abortion, Latent Tuberculosis Complicated by Disseminated Peritoneal TB by Christoph Sossou, Chaitanya Pal, Jose R. Bustillo

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Electronic Health Record Use Patterns Among Well-Being Survey Responders and Nonresponders: Longitudinal Observational Study by Daniel Tawfik, Tait D Shanafelt, Mohsen Bayati, Jochen Profit

“… Abstract BackgroundPhysician surveys provide indispensable insights into physician experience, but the question of whether responders are representative can limit confidence in conclusions. …”
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Bilateral Sensorineural Deafness in a Young Pregnant Female Presenting with a Fever: A Rare Complication of a Reemerging Disease—Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses by A. G. T. A. Kariyawasam, D. R. Palangasinghe, C. L. Fonseka, P. U. T. De Silva, T. E. Kanakkahewa, N. J. Dahanayaka

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Holistic Medicine III: The Holistic Process Theory of Healing by Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…The patient enters the “holistic state of healing” when the (1) patient and (2) the physician have a perspective in accordance with life, (3) a safe environment, (4) personal resources, (5) the patient has the will to live, (6) the patient and (7) the physician have the intention of healing, (8) the trust of the patient in the physician, and (9) sufficient holding. …”
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Cervical Spine Mechanism for Reproduction of the Biomechanical Behaviours of the Human Neck during Rotation-Traction Manipulation by Yuancan Huang, Shuai Li, Minshan Feng, Liguo Zhu

“…This procedure temporarily separates the C3 and C4 cervical vertebrae from each other when a physician applies a jerky action while the neck is voluntarily turned by the patient to a specific position as instructed by the physician, where the cervical vertebrae are twisted and locked. …”
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Impact of a nurse-led teleconsultation strategy for cardiovascular disease management during COVID-19 pandemic in India: a pyramid model feasibility study by Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Kavita Singh, Ambuj Roy, Bishav Mohan, Rohit Tandon, Abhishek Goyal, Bhupinder Singh, Shibba Takkar Chhabra, Naved Aslam, Gurpreet Singh Wander, Nitish Naik, Gurbhej SIngh, Shivaansh Aggarwal, Aftabh Saini

“…The patient’s treatment satisfaction was similar between the nurse-led versus physician-led teleconsultations (p=0.07).Conclusion This study showed that a nurse-led telemedicine strategy is feasible to implement in a resource-constraint setting for triaging patients with CVD and reduces physician’s burden.…”
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Exploring timely and safe discharge from ICU: a comparative study of machine learning predictions and clinical practices by Chao Ping Wu, Rachel Benish Shirley, Alex Milinovich, Kaiyin Liu, Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, Hassan Khouli, Abhijit Duggal, Anirban Bhattacharyya

“…Additionally, the models’ performance was assessed in comparison to physician judgments, with any discrepancies between the two carefully analyzed. …”
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Review of interruptions in a pediatric subspecialty outpatient clinic. by Tyler Lee, Hinette Rosario, Elizabeth Cifuentes, Jiawei Cui, Emery C Lin, Victoria A Miller, Henry C Lin

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>The objective of this study was to describe interruptions in the pediatric ambulatory setting and to assess their impact on perceived physician communication, patient satisfaction and recall of provided physician instructions.…”
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Central Pain Mimicking Trigeminal Neuralgia as a Result of Lateral Medullary Ischemic Stroke by Abinayaa Ravichandran, Kareem S. Elsayed, Hussam A. Yacoub

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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Treatment of Children by Søren Ventegodt, Mohammed Morad, Gideon Vardi, Joav Merrick

“…Most problems arising from dysfunctional patterns are almost impossible for the parents to solve on their own, but with help and support from the holistically oriented physician, we believe that many problems can be discovered and solved. …”
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Performance of Integrated Emergency Surgical Officers at Mizan-Tepi University Teaching Hospital, Mizan-Aman, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Margo S. Harrison, Ephrem Kirub, Tewodros Liyew, Biruk Teshome, Andrea Jimenez-Zambrano, Margaret Muldrow, Teklemariam Yarinbab

“…Introduction. Surgical physician extenders are used in Ethiopia and sub-Saharan Africa where there is a lack of surgical providers. …”
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