Effectiveness of a Collaborative, Virtual Outreach Curriculum for 4th-Year EM-bound Students at a Medical School Affiliated with a Historically Black College and University by Cortlyn Brown, Richard Carter, Nicholas Hartman, Aaryn Hammond, Emily MacNeill, Lynne Holden, Ava Pierce, Linelle Campbell, Marquita Norman

“…Background: Diversity within the physician workforce is associated with improved clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. …”
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Efficacy of aquatic exercises on balance in children with sickle cell anemia: A randomized controlled trial by Omar Abd El-Hameed Abd El-Fattah Ghetas, Azza Abd El-Aziz Abd El-Hady, El-Sayed Ali Shaheen Ali, Amira El-Sayed El-Bagalaty

“…The study group (A) consisted of 30 children (17 boys and 13 girls), who received medical treatment (prescribed by physician), balance exercises, and aquatic exercises sessions. …”
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Development of cohort definitions and algorithms to identify patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome or Dravet syndrome from real-world administrative healthcare databases by Drishti Shah, Victoria Divino, Justin Chen, Arturo Benitez, Jeannine Roth, J. Scott Andrews

“…Multiple seizure types, developmental delay, and intellectual disabilities were considered by the physicians to be key diagnostic features. The country-specific definitions for all 3 approaches (specific diagnostic codes, ASM indicated for LGS or DS only, and broader epilepsy diagnostic codes) were refined further using consensus from the physician interviews. …”
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Chaperones Utilization in Clinical Practice: Intimate and Sensitive Physical Examination Best Practice Strategies and Concepts in Modern Urological Medicine by Tarini Mitra, Nicolas K. Koerber, Harini Shah, Austin C. Kassels, Danyon J. Anderson, Brennen J. Cooper, Meghan B. Schaefer, Alan D. Kaye, Harish B. Bangalore Siddaiah, Jibin S. Mathew, Jeffrey R. Sterritt, Zachary S. Lee, Ivan Urits

“…Two studies reported the likelihood of chaperone utilization depending on gender of the physician, showing that male physicians were more likely to utilize chaperones and were 3x more likely to offer chaperones to their patients compared to female physicians. …”
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A MODEL FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY: MULTIMEDIA DATABASE APPROACH by D. V. Tuyet, S. V. Ablameyko

“…In recent years, the deployment of Health Information Technology (HIS) applications and Laboratory Information System (LIS) in some big hospitals have enhanced the quality of administrative management and actively supported the diagnosis and treatment tasks of the physician. In this paper, we will present an architectural model of the Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (MDL).…”
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Opium the Best Remedy by Harold Merskey

“…Sydenham was the leading English physician of the 17th century and probably to the present time. …”
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Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients by Fahad Saeed, Nikhil Agrawal, Eugene Greenberg, Jean L. Holley

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Feasibility of a Provincial Voluntary Reporting System for Work-Related Asthma in Ontario by Teresa To, Susan M Tarlo, Susan McLimont, Ted Haines, D Linn Holness, M Diane Lougheed, Gary M Liss, Lisa Cicutto

“…OBJECTIVE The Ontario Work-Related Asthma Surveillance System: Physician Reporting (OWRAS) Network was established in 2007 to estimate the prevalence of work-related asthma (WRA) in Ontario, and to test the feasibility of collecting data for cases of WRA from physicians voluntarily.…”
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Plasmablastic transformation of a double hit follicular lymphoma: An emerging entity by Shanaz Khodaiji, Vidisha Mahajan, Krishna Sawaimoon Satyakam, Pratibha Sudhan Kadam Amare

“…This unusual case presentation is a challenge for the treating physician with the patient becoming resistant to chemotherapy and succumbing to the disease within a few months of diagnosis. …”
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<i>120th' Anniversary of Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health </i>(Interview with the Rector S.E. Bakulev) by Sergey E. Bakulev

“…The founder of the University is Petr Lesgaft - the famous scientist, physician and pedagogue, whose system of physical education became the basis for physical culture development in Russia. …”
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Pain Management and Telemedicine: A Look at the COVID Experience and Beyond by Jamal Hasoon, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye

“…Given the benefits and downfalls of telemedicine, it is ultimately up to the provider who has an established patient-physician relationship and best understands the patient's limitations and healthcare needs who can best determine which patient population telemedicine is appropriate for and how frequently it can be utilized for each individual patient.…”
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Removal of a Penile Constriction Device with a Large Orthopedic Pin Cutter by Avinash Chennamsetty, David Wenzler, Melissa Fischer

“…This case report describes the relatively safe technique of using an instrument available in many hospitals that can be added to the physician’s arsenal in the removal of metal constriction devices.…”
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Comment la téléconsultation médicale « en autonomie » infléchit-elle les rapports de pouvoir dans la relation médecin-patient ? by Cécilia Calheiros

“…By this expression we mean the ones that take place on private platforms between an autonomous patient, without a connected instrument at his disposal, and a private general physician.…”
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Stigmatization as a Barrier to Urologic Care: A Review by Parker Foster, Marie Luebke, Abrahim N. Razzak, Danyon J. Anderson, Jamal Hasoon, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits

“…In this review, we address barriers that have prevented patients from seeking urologic care in order to better understand and elucidate important concerns within development of the physician-patient relationship. Recognizing these concerns can also assist in public health outreach approaches to motivate patients for seeking urologic care. …”
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Lingual hematoma, rare complication in a hemodialysis patient. A case presentation by Yuliel Varona Rodríguez

“…The presence of odynophagia and/or dysphagia in an anticoagulated patient should put the treating physician on alert; for this reason and because of the rarity of this situation, it was decided to publish the case.…”
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Bacteremia with an Unusual Pathogen: Mycobacterium neoaurum by Hesham Awadh, Munthir Mansour, Mahmoud Shorman

“…No treatment guidelines are available and treatment largely depends on the experience of the treating physician and nature of the isolate. We report a case of M. neoaurum bacteremia in an immune competent host, with a chronically placed peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC line).…”
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Immediate postoperative cardiac tamponade following robotic lung resection surgery: a case report by Kathryn M. Jan, Anthony Q. Dao, Ravi Joshi, Sreekanth Cheruku, Suzanne Dellaria, Kunal Karamchandani

“…We also make an argument for perioperative care management by POCUS-trained physicians.…”
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Isolated Cysticercosis of Sternocleidomastoid Muscle: Role of Ultrasonography by Subash Thapa, Norman Lamichhane, Santosh Joshi

“…Isolated skeletal muscle involvement is rare and presents with nonspecific symptoms resulting in a diagnostic dilemma for the treating physician. We report a 20-year-old female with isolated cysticercosis of right sternocleidomastoid muscle presenting as a right neck swelling and mild pain for 4 months, whose diagnosis was established by ultrasonography (USG) and computed tomogram (CT) scan. …”
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Malpractice and Avascular Necrosis: Legal Outcomes by Rose M Carter

“…Every physician, but particularly specialists, have reason to be concerned about medical legal issues. …”
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The clinical method in the practice of family medicine by Roberto Álvarez Sintes

“…We insist on the way the general physician understands problems and addresses them using the clinical method. …”
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