Search results for "Perspectives"
Know the patient to achieve statin benefits
That statins work is without question. And with costs falling due to many drugs in the class going generic, physicians are now refining when to prescribe the ubiquitous drug class based on the degree of risk.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/11/statin.htm
1 Nov 2010
Would Congress cut funding for popular health care programs?
A serious bi-partisan discussion is needed to make serious decisions about health care reform.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/11/washington.htm
1 Nov 2010
Saying yes—or no—to medical marijuana
A first look at issues that aren't cut-and-dried on the surface: when to prescribe medical marijuana, and when to prescribe statins. For both issues, the devil is in the details.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/11/editors.htm
1 Nov 2010
An international meeting highlights domestic health care
ACP's international membership has much to offer the domestic roster, and vice versa.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/11/presidents.htm
1 Nov 2010
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond about medical marijuana, mindful medicine, pharmaceutical reps, and more.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/01/letters.htm
1 Jan 2011
Influencing the details of health reform so internists get paid
It is often said that people don't see the forest for the trees, obsessing on the details instead of the big picture.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/01/washington.htm
1 Jan 2011
Diagnosis, treatment of chronic sinusitis present challenges
Chronic sinusitis can make a patient's life miserable, but it's often a difficult diagnosis to parse.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/01/editors.htm
1 Jan 2011
Medical home model might be health care's next great change
The patient-centered medical home might be health care next transformational innovation, one that will allow primary care to survive and thrive.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/01/presidents.htm
1 Jan 2011
How many are too many for CT scans?
As many as one-third of the 70 million imaging tests ordered during the year may not be needed. Experts attempt to determine whether repeated radiation scanning doses could prove potentially yet unintentionally harmful.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/02/CT.htm
1 Feb 2011
History will judge outgoing Congress' impact on health reform
One would have to go back more than 45 years to find a Congress that has had as big an impact on health care as the just-departed 111th Congress.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/02/washington.htm
1 Feb 2011