Letter: Medical synovectomy.

Synovectomy for rheumatoid arthritis.

Aerospace medical association letter to the editor

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing the article “Airplane pilot mental health and suicidal thoughts: a cross-sectional descriptive study via anonymous web-based survey” by Wu, et al., [1] 15 December 2016. We are glad the authors chose to investigate the area of pilot mental health and recognized the need to acquire data on the issue directly from sampling pilot populations. The literature on...

The medical letter on drugs and therapeutics.

Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter

The drugs of choice for treatment of common cardiac arrhythmias are listed in the table that begins on the next page; some drugs are recommended for indications for which they have not been approved by the US FDA. The dosages and adverse effects of each drug are listed in the table that begins on page 80. Antiarrhythmic drugs may themselves cause arrhythmias, which can be fatal. Some of these d...

Letter from...Chicago. Confusion oriented medical records.

In the 15 years since Dr William Bean wrote his Tower of Babel, 1963,' hospital medical records have become increasingly bulky and incomprehensible. The caligraphic efforts of the few have given way to the team approach of the multitude, and to the cryptic cuneiforms of the harassed houseman have been added the voluminous written opinions of an army of specialised nurses, dietitians, social wor...