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Bertalan Mesko,MD,PhD    Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referral Center  Colorectal Cancer Screen  CDC.gov  
 | Medical students pursuing an internal medicine residency position often require a department of medicine (DOM) letter,also known as a “chair’s letter” for their residency applications. DOM letters have the potential to provide important information about student attributes from the perspective of experienced internal medicine educators,but this potential is often unfulfilled. In a 2012 [...] DURHAM,N.C. – Erik Paulson,M.D.,will return to the Duke University School of Medicine as chairman of the Department of Radiology,after serving as professor and chairman of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Paulson was educated and trained at Duke,and spent 20 years as a faculty member with [...] Decades of educating the public about the warning signs of a heart attack has had the beneficial effect of prompting individuals with bona fide myocardial infarction to quickly seek medical attention,but at the same time induces many more individuals experiencing benign chest pain to present to emergency departments (ED) for evaluation. Even though most [...] Background— More than 25% of Medicare patients hospitalized for heart failure are readmitted within 30 days. The contributions of numeracy and health literacy to recidivism for patients with acute heart failure (AHF) are not known. Methods and Results— A cohort of patients with acute heart failure who presented to 4 emergency departments between January [...] Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) DURHAM,N.C. – Benjamin A. Alman,M.D.,will join the Duke University School of Medicine as chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,starting in June after departing as A.J. Latner professor and chairman of orthopaedics at the University of Toronto. “Dr. Alman is the ideal leader for our orthopaedic surgery department,”said Nancy Andrews,M.D.,[...] Approximately 800,000 times a year,an emergency physician admits a patient with symptomatic heart failure (HF). Yet only a minority of emergency department patients with HF are severely ill as a result of pulmonary edema,myocardial ischemia,or cardiogenic shock. The majority of patients are not in need of an acute intervention beyond decongestion,and [...] Leon Morgenstern,MD,who led Cedars-Sinai’s Department of Surgery into international prominence and founded its Center for Healthcare Ethics,died Sunday in Los Angeles at the age of 93. A surgeon,scholar,humanist,medical researcher and prolific author,he remained active after his retirement and worked in his office up until the day of his [...] |
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