Dr. Susan E. Brien is a post-doctoral fellow in the Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta. Dr. William A. Ghali is a professor in the Centre for Health and Policy Studies, Department of Community Health Sciences, and a general internist within the Department of Medicine, University of Calgary at the Foothills Medical ...

T he mortality from melanoma, currently the sixth most common malignant neoplasm in men and women, increases after age 50 years and can be expected to increase as the US population ages. Sixteen percent of melanomas are discovered by physicians, and 76% of those are detected by primary care physicians. Given that 41.8% of US annual physician visits are to a family practitioner or internist, the...

The traditional gap between surgeons and internists was much wider 100 years ago than nowadays. At the beginning of the twentieth century, neither group was particularly open to the idea of scholarly exchange. In this respect, both early pioneers of laparoscopy, Georg Kelling (1866-1945) (Figure 1), a German surgeon of Dresden, and Hans Christian Jacobaeus (1879-1937) (Figure 2), an internist f...

PURPOSE To evaluate factors behind the delay in diagnosis and treatment among Egyptian patients who present with complicated diabetic retinopathy. METHODS Observational cross-sectional study of diabetic patients with advanced diabetic retinopathy. Patients were asked to answer a questionnaire to assess the impact of several sociodemographic factors. RESULTS A total of 397 patients agreed to...

Semen Semenovich Zimnitsky is an outstanding Russian internist of the early XX century. He created a functional direction and made significant contribution to internal medicine, infectiology, immunology microbiology, but his studies gastroenterology are fundamental. The Zimnitsky’s works on hepatology, pancreatic diseases, balneology interesting. S. discovered 5 types gastric secretion, which t...