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...

IMED 801 Hematology/Oncology Credits 1.25 to 10. It is the purpose of this elective to provide the student with an introduction to clinical oncology and laboratory hematology/oncology, particularly the approach to and evaluation of the patient with a hematologic/oncology disorder. The student will assist /perform routine hematologic procedures, including evaluation of peripheral smears and poss...

Background: Guidelines advocate changes in fatty acid consumption to promote cardiovascular health.

I read with amusement the proposal to increase by one year the training for internal medicine specialists. Does everybody today want to be known as having a “special skill”? I submit that if residents who complete four years of training in internal medicine find themselves lacking skills, it is the training that is deficient, not the time spent training. Four years is a substantial amount of ti...

Unusual features of this new text are a long chapter on atomic and molecular structure, a clear summary of modern ideas about biological oxidation and reduction, and the extreme detail with which even the most elementary mathematical operations are explained. The behavior of buffers is also discussed very fully. Mathematical expressions of the laws of physical chemistry are cut down to a minimu...

Number 47 Recently we identified Citation C[as-sics TM from theleadlng journals ofmedi-tine. The first two essays in this series fo-cused on the New England Journa[ of Medicinel and The Lancet.2 For this essay, we've identified 101 papers from Annals of Internal Medicine using Science Citation Index " (.SCP) data from 1961 to 1982. Annak of Internal Medicine is published by the American College...

FORUM FOR INTERNAL MEDICINE On the lesser importance of internal medicine Introduction Internal medicine constitutes a unique medical specialty. Not only does it include both outand in patient care, but also involves acute cases and life -threatening conditions. Subjectively, in my view, internal medicine is the essence of medicine, and all the attempts at the reduction of the physician’s role ...

IMED 801 Hematology/Oncology Credits 1.25 to 10. It is the purpose of this elective to provide the student with an introduction to clinical oncology and laboratory hematology/oncology, particularly the approach to and evaluation of the patient with a hematologic/oncology disorder. The student will assist /perform routine hematologic procedures, including evaluation of peripheral smears and poss...

IMED 801 Hematology/Oncology Credits 1.25 to 10. It is the purpose of this elective to provide the student with an introduction to clinical oncology and laboratory hematology/oncology, particularly the approach to and evaluation of the patient with a hematologic/oncology disorder. The student will assist /perform routine hematologic procedures, including evaluation of peripheral smears and poss...