Review on Internal Medicine, 1978

A review on evidence-based medicine

Physicians’ daily need for valid information about diseases, their limited time for finding this information, the inadequacy of traditional sources (E.g. textbooks) to address this matter, the disparity between physicians diagnostic skills and clinical judgment (Which increase with experience) and their up to date knowledge and clinical performance (Which decline by time), as well as dramatic d...

Internet searching on internal medicine literature.

Internet technology for distributing information enormously supports the development of medical knowledge. Various medical resources on the internet are very helpful for the doctors' self-improvement; either on education, research, or health care application. Famous medical journals have made their online version, which can be accessed at any time and anywhere. However, there are extremely enou...

Review of general surgery 1978 HAROLD ELLIS

Introduction This year the subjects that have caught my eye have been some of the major problems in cardiovascular surgery, particularly the epidemic of coronary bypass operations which are now being performed, some of the controversial topics which surround management of patients with breast cancer and a number of interesting papers concerning patients with acute abdominal pain. I must then co...

Issues in Internal Medicine

There are many significant internal medicine problems in aerospace medicine. Although discussing them all is beyond the scope of this chapter, the following topics have been selected because of their particular importance or frequency in aviation medicine. The emphasis will be on aeromedical significance, evaluation, and disposition rather than general medical diagnosis and treatment. This emph...

Equine Internal Medicine