Internal Medicine in General Practice

Update in general internal medicine.

Update in general internal medicine.

The big news in women’s health in 2002 came from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) report, which found that combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) (estrogen plus progestin) exposes postmenopausal women to more risk than benefit. Before this report, most observational studies showed that HRT decreased risk for heart disease by as much as 35%. In retrospect, however, many of these studies d...

Preventive Medicine in General Practice

setting for prevention (9), (10); the general practitioner has frequent contact with the majority of a defined population, including those at risk. He or she is perceived as credible and trustworthy, communicates on a one to one basis with the patient and is supported by a primary care team. The potential for preventive medicine in general practice is beginning to be explored (11)?(15). Despite...

Physical Medicine in General Practice

Clinical pearls in general internal medicine 2012.

eneral A t the 2001 Annual Conference of the American College of Physicians, a new teaching format to aid physician learning, Clinical Pearls, was introduced. Clinical Pearls is designed with the 3 qualities of physician-learners in mind. First, we physicians enjoy learning from cases. Second, we like concise, practical points that we can use in our practice. Finally, we take pleasure in proble...