Practical Suicide-Risk Management for the Busy Primary Care Physician

Contemporary management of neuropathic pain for the primary care physician.

Neuropathic pain (NP), caused by a primary lesion or dysfunction in the nervous system, affects approximately 4 million people in the United States each year. It is associated with many diseases, including diabetic peripheral neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, human immunodeficiency virus-related disorders, and chronic radiculopathy. Major pathophysiological mechanisms include peripheral sensi...

Depression: Diagnosis and Management for the Primary Care Physician.

BACKGROUND: Much has been learned in recent years about the diagnosis and treatment of depression, a serious, commonly overlooked psychiatric illness often seen initially by the primary care physician. The objective of this article is to review the diagnosis and treatment of depression in primary care practice. METHOD: Relevant articles on depression were identified by a comprehensive MEDLINE s...

Practical implications for health care providers in a physician-assisted suicide environment.

Evaluation of the Arkansas Medicaid Primary Care Physician Management Program

Arkansas implemented a primary-care case-management program in February 1994. This study evaluates the program during its first 17 months. Using quarterly data collected for the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), a pooled cross-sectional time series analysis (1991:4-1995:2) estimates the effect of eligibles' program enrollment on expenditure (total, inpatient hospital, outpatient hosp...

Physician-assisted suicide: the legal and practical contours.

This paper considers current medical and legal perspectives on patients' right to assistance in dying. In highlighting the competing policy objectives that must be resolved, it examines failed legislative initiatives in Washington and California. It also considers a pending New Hampshire proposal. The last shows the difficulty of simultaneously alleviating physician's objections and achieving p...