Search results for "Ethics"
Nominees named for College Officer and Regent positions
Nominations for ACP President and Board of Regents.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/11/regents.htm
1 Nov 2011
Editor's Note: Family ties help close the generation gap
Washington, D.C., is lending not just a location but also a theme to many of the offerings at Internal Medicine 2008.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/04/four.htm
1 Apr 2008
Osler, expertise, and phronesis personified
From residency onward throughout a physician's career, becoming a diagnostician requires the ability to distinguish important clues or details from those that are not as pertinent to the situation at hand, a slowly developed skill that ultimately is recognized as an “expertise.”
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/10/osler-expertise-and-phronesis-personified.htm
1 Oct 2019
Internists must navigate multiple worlds during the pandemic
Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic has cast a bright light on the value of the internist's comprehensive case management skills, among them symptom identification, accurate diagnosis, and disease management.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/10/internists-must-navigate-multiple-worlds-during-the-pandemic.htm
1 Oct 2020
ACP website features new online policy library and redesigned advocacy section
ACP has redesigned the advocacy section of its website to make it easier to view and find content about ACP's advocacy and public policy efforts.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/04/02/9.htm
2 Apr 2013
Nominees named for College Officer, Treasurer and Regents
The Governance Committee of the American College of Physicians placed in nomination candidates for leadership positions.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/11/regents.htm
1 Nov 2012
Solution to resistant hypertension sometimes hides in plain sight
This issue also addresses stories about osteoarthritis, race and clinical algorithms, and follow-up care for thyroid cancers.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/05/solution-to-resistant-hypertension-sometimes-hides-in-plain-sight.htm
1 May 2021
National Healthcare Decisions Day to be held April 16
ACP joins more than 700 national, state and community organizations in support of National Healthcare Decisions Day, which will be held April 16.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/04/13/9.htm
13 Apr 2010
Survey finds some patients hate pills more than others
Physicians prescribing and talking to patients about medication should keep in mind their patients' disdain for taking pills and the lengths they will go to not have to take them.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/05/pills.htm
1 May 2015
Lack of kidneys for transplant raises debates
A shortage of transplantable organs has led to previously unthought-of issues that entangle ethics, policy, costs and clinical complications. Internists now must consider transplant tourists, long waits and “donation chains” as factors in their patient counseling.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/02/transplants.htm
1 Feb 2011