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Empathy in Medicine: What It Is, and How Much We Really Need It

WEBIt is acknowledged that empathy plays a critical role in the physician-patient relationship and has a positive impact on health outcomes. However, as the field of …

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Understanding Health Attitudes and Behavior

WEBIndividual attitudes and behavior related to health and disease are major components of clinical encounters. These factors shape lifestyle, presentation of …

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The Intersection of Behavioral Economics and the General …

WEBJudgment and decision-making influence health-related behavior and clinical decision-making and, ultimately, health. It has been estimated that more than half of …

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Against Medical Advice Discharge: A Narrative Review and

WEBApproximately 1%-2% of hospitalizations in the United States result in an against medical advice discharge. Still, the practice of discharging patients against …

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Music and Medicine: Promoting Harmony for Health

WEBAs a powerful tool to express emotions, music has been used in the daily life of human beings for relaxation, stress reduction, dance, socialization, entertainment, …

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International Consensus on Standardized Clinic Blood Pressure

WEBHigh blood pressure (BP) is the single leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease worldwide,1-4 and lowering BP substantially reduces that risk.5-7 Effective BP …

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The Importance of Being Curious

WEBThe Importance of Being Curious. A stand-alone attribute by most accounts, curiosity has much to offer the healing profession. Indispensable to any analytic efforts …

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The Dangers of Ingesting Antiseptics: Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced

WEBThe homeopathic literature has touted benefits of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) ingestion for approximately 150 years.1 Recent literature promotes H2O2 ingestion as …

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Trending Nutrition Controversies #3: Top Controversies in 2021

WEBAbstract. Each year, patients are bombarded with diverging and even contradictory reports concerning the impact of certain additives, foods, and nutrients on cardiovascular health …

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Hypnosis: The Most Effective Treatment You Have Yet to Prescribe

WEBDespite robust evidence for myriad ailments and sound mechanistic data, hypnosis is underused by internists. Using hypnosis fulfills our pledge to abide by …

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We Can Reduce US Health Care Costs

WEBThe primary reason that the US needs health care reform is that we pay more for health care than any other country in the world; yet our health outcomes are below that of …

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America's Health Care System is Broken: What Went Wrong and …

WEBUnlike most Western democracies, health insurance in the United States is provided by a haphazard mix of employer-based plans, Medicare for those over age 65 …

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Interpreters in Health Care: A Concise Review for Clinicians

WEBHealth care providers are frequently faced with the challenge of caring for patients who have limited English proficiency. These patients experience challenges …

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Association Between Egg Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular …

WEBWe systematically searched Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, Ovid Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Scopus, and Web of Science from database inception …

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The Role of Well-Being in Physicians' Health

WEBDuring my residency training in psychiatry in Italy, I had the opportunity to spend my final year in the United States. Quite unexpectedly I found myself acting as an …

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Mushroom Consumption and Cardiovascular Health: A Systematic …

WEBEdible mushrooms have a great nutritional value including high protein, essential amino acids, fiber, vitamins (B1, B2, B12, C, and D), minerals (calcium [Ca], …

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Why do so Many Americans Oppose the Affordable Care Act

WEBThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by a Democratic president in 2010. …

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How Healthcare Is Different

WEBAnalogies to non-healthcare-related manufacturing and services industries are often used to highlight opportunities to improve the quality, outcomes, and costs of …

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Medical Tourists: Incoming and Outgoing

WEBPatients who travel to another country to seek health care are referred to as medical tourists. The term arose because many Americans seek less expensive elective …

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Health Care Fraud: The Leading Violation of the False Claims Act

WEBIt is a sign of the times when the lion's share of the schemes intent on defrauding the federal government are in the health care arena.1 Data reported by the …

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Relevance of Changes in Blood Fibrinolytic and Coagulation …

WEBSYMPOSIUM ON THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY-MARDER. TABLE I Clinical Relevance of Blood Coagulation Tests during Thrombolytic Therapy* Effect in the Blood Hemorrhagic …

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Primary Pulmonary Hypertension*

WEBcanalized thrombi (Fig. 8B) in the precapillary and Hospital on July 17, 1950, because of weakness, post-capillary vessels of microscopic size. These latter changes were much …

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