The internist's goal is to determine a patient's disease risk and to implement preventative interventions. Genetic evaluation is a powerful risk assessment tool, and new interventions target previously untreatable genetic disorders. The purpose of this review is to educate the general internist about common genetic conditions affecting adult patients, with special emphasis on diagnoses with an ...

Growing bodies of clinical experience and research suggest there are major benefits for patients, physicians, and CAM practitioners with the integration of energy medicine with conventional medical care. Conventional medical practice is excellent for infections, surgically correctable problems, hormonal dysfunctions, and some genetic defects. There are many illnesses for which conventional medi...

Its drawback is that it sells for nearly $60 and takes at least five hours to read. Dr. Cohn published an excellent review article in the Annals ofInternal Medicine (August 15, 1988) which essentially summarizes the important points of the book in five pages. The article provides the internist with just as much information as he or she needs, is cheap, and takes much less time to read. I did, h...

Because it is difficult to distinguish between infectious and noninfectious conditions, and because treating infections with corticosteroids alone can have grave consequences, we recommend that internists generally not use topical corticosteroids to treat eye symptoms. ANY PATIENTS present to internists because of redness in the eye. The possible causes range from benign (which generally can be...