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What Clinicians Need to Know about Bilingual Development.

Basic research on bilingual development suggests several conclusions that can inform clinical practice with children from bilingual environments. They include the following: (1) Dual language input does not confuse children. (2) It is not necessary for the two languages to be kept separate in children's experience to avoid confusion. (3) Learning two languages takes longer than learning one; on...

What clinicians need to know about DSM-5.

Human immunodeficiency virus: what primary care clinicians need to know.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has evolved from an illness that consistently led to death to a chronic disease that can be medically managed. Primary care clinicians can provide beneficial care to the individual patient and potentially decrease the transmission of HIV to others through appropriate HIV screening and recognition of clinical clues to both chronic and acute HIV. Most patients w...

Ten Basic Principles about Critical Ultrasonography: Critical Care Practitioners Need to Know

With the noninvasive, convenient, and unique value in the quick diagnosis and dynamic monitoring during the course of treatment, critical ultrasonography has been widely used in critical care medicine, regarded as the “visual stethoscope” and applied in medical education and training system.[1] Based on years of experience in the application and promotion of critical ultrasonography, the author...

Pressure ulcers: what clinicians need to know.

William T Wake, MD, fAAfP, is a Physician in the Department of Family Medicine and Department of Continuing Care at the Baldwin Park Medical Center in CA. E-mail: [email protected]. Introduction Pressure ulcer treatment is one of many aspects of patient care in which nursing care interfaces directly with clinician-provided medical services. Traditionally, the treatment of pressure ulcers ha...