Who should perform the Asthma Control Test: Patient? Physician?

Who should perform thoracoscopy?

The physician should benefit, not harm the patient.

Six hundred years before Christ, Hippocrates said that physicians on exercising their medical duties, should benefit but not harm their patients. Seventy years ago increased medical radiation caused radiologists in the US an excess risk of leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. Now medical radiation is rather safe for the physician but the question remains if proper prophylactic measures are ...

Who decides--the patient, the physician or the rabbi?

I am deeply honored to have been invited to give this second annual Jakobovits Memorial Lecture. I first met the Rav as a young physician who attended his biweekly shiurim at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue. He was my teacher, guide and personal friend for over four decades. As you all know, it was he who coined the term “Jewish Medical Ethics” which has taken firm hold throughout the world. The Rav...

Anti-retroviral therapy for HIV: who should we test and who should we treat?

† This is an expanded version of a presentation given by Brian Williams at the 2nd International HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) Workshop, April 22−25, 2012, Vancouver, BC, Canada Abstract In most countries CD4+ cell counts are still used for deciding when to start HIV-positive people on anti-retroviral therapy. However, various CD4+ thresholds, 200, 350 or 500/μL, are chosen arbitrarily and...

Physician/patient differences in the perception of asthma: impact on everyday life and level of the asthma control in Croatia.

The aim of the study was to compare physician/patient differences in the perception of asthma. The data were obtained by questionnaires from 156 physicians and 148 asthmatics in four urban regions in Croatia. On a "bad day", 62% of physicians and 16% of patients perceived respiratory symptoms with statistically significant difference. The patients described asthma impact in terms of reduced dai...