DEDUCTIONS DRAWN FROM FOUR YEARSʼ EXPERIENCE IN GROUP PRACTICE

Deductions from Experience in a Tuberculosis Ex-Patients' Colony in India

Dubious Deductions from AGN Survey Data

The participants in this meeting are almost all carrying out the hard work of making many different types of AGN surveys. Since it’s so much easier to criticize other people’s work than to do actual work myself, I’ll just present some demurs regarding recent papers drawing conclusions from various AGN survey data. In particular I’ll mention some questionable interpretations of surveys of Seyfer...

Capsule endoscopy in clinical practice: four years of experience from a single center.

Capsule endoscopy is a diagnostic method of increasing use nowadays, with various applications such as, evaluation of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic diarrhea and anemia. The experience of 4 years is reported in a retrospective review of 109 medical records to determine the main indications and the most common diagnostic findings and the percentage of positive studies. The main indic...

Pediatric sialendoscopy: initial experience in a pediatric otolaryngology group practice.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To describe the initial results of sialendoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in pediatric inflammatory salivary gland disease. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of patient medical records from a private practice consisting of three fellowship-trained pediatric otolaryngologists. METHODS Consecutive pediatric patients with either recurrent or chronic sialadenit...

Breast feeding--a year's experience of one group practice.

Dissatisfaction at the lack of support and encouragement in the immediate post-partum period of mothers in hospital wishing to breast feed is expressed in their own words. Analysis indicates that mothers in the upper social classes are more likely to breast feed and that those who manage to sustain breast feeding for one week are likely to continue this method of feeding for at least six weeks ...