Snow and Dickens: The Victorian ‘Inconvenient Truth’ by Wayne Melville et Philip V. Allingham

“…We will illustrate this thesis through the work of Dickens and the pioneering physician, Dr John Snow. In Victorian London, Snow challenged the deeply held theory that miasmas caused diseases such as cholera. …”
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Alcoholism and its Effects: an Approach Based on Health Psychology by Maria de las Mercedes Pretel Olite, Belkis González Aguiar, Anabel Machado Guevara, Odalis Fernández López, Yannelys Toledo Luaces

“…Therefore, the main objective of a primary care physician should be to facilitate the referral of patients and their families to a structured treatment, support and guidance program during the whole detoxification process. …”
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Pain Management in Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders by Antonio Vigano, Eduardo Bruera

“…The sensory, cognitive and affective components of pain intensity expression need to be addressed in the context of a good physician-patient rapport. A multidisciplinary team approach is ideal for the smaller subset of patients with severe and disabling symptoms. …”
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Following are the abstracts from the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging

“…Declaration of Financial Interests or Relationships To insure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all CME programs it is the policy of the meeting's joint sponsors that any speaker or poster presenter who makes a presentation at a program designated for AMA Physician's Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 or 2 credit must disclose any real or apparent financial interest or other relationship (i.e., grants, research support, consultant, honoraria) that the presenter may have with the manufacturers, distributors or providers of any commercial products or services that may be discussed in the presentation. …”
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More than an Incidentaloma: The Nonreportable NIPT by Allison M. Jay, Brian Mason, Daniel Lebovic, Paul Chuba

“…This report overviews proposed management guidelines for pregnant women with a nonreportable result and helps to address discomfort the treating physician may feel in discussing this result with their patient.…”
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Cardiac Arrest and Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Case of Medical Heuristics by Tokunbo Ajayi, Jerome Okudo

“…In an attempt to make a diagnosis, initial clinical information provided to the physician may be overly relied on as the only information required in making diagnosis leading to anchoring. …”
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Peut-on considerer qu’un nouveau droit du maintien dans l’emploi est en cours d’élaboration ? by Hervé Gosselin

“…The employer’s obligations regarding the reclassification of a salaried employee who cannot remain at his job, is subject to two different legal rules, depending on whether the employee is declared “able,” subject to adaptation of his workstation, or "disabled" by the occupational physician. This distinction is not relevant ; it is a source of legal insecurity and it orients the judge’s control towards the regularity of the contestation of work disability at the expense of a verification that the employer has done everything necessary to adapt the position or to reclassify the salaried employee. …”
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Rare Case of Methemoglobinemia Complicating Pregnancy by S. Verma, P. Sachdeva, G. Gandhi

“…In presence of senior consultants of anesthesia and gynecology and under high-risk consent she had an uneventful cesarean delivery. Physician and cardiologist opinions were sought thereafter. …”
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Uncommon Odontogenic Orocutaneous Fistula of the Jaw Treated with Platelet-Rich Fibrin by Kani Bilginaylar

“…A 21-year-old male referred with a complaint of a lesion on the chin which was misdiagnosed as a carbuncle (lesion of nonodontogenic origin) by a physician. After radiological examination, there was a lesion around the apical region of right central incisor. …”
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Introduction to the South African Rheumatism and Arthritis Association 2024 guidelines by B Hodkinson, E van Vuuren, A Maharaj, F Paruk, K Makan

“…The purpose of these guidelines is to aid in shared decision-making between patient and physician, aiming to support high-quality clinical care. …”
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Treatment of the refractory angina in the very elderly patients and centenarians by O.A. Yepanchintseva, O.P. Nadorak, Yu.A. Borkhalenko, S.I. Mashkovska, O.J. Zharinov

“…The main reason for referral to the physician in this case was angina persisting even after repeated endovascular interventions and coronary artery bypass surgery. …”
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Monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19 in rheumatoid arthritis: A case report and a clinical appraisal of selected drug trials by Arvind Chopra

“…The current report describes successful treatment of a rapidly progressive severe breakthrough COVID-19 in a female physician, a known case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). …”
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When a Dead Patient Is Not Really Dead: Lazarus Phenomenon by Munish Sharma, Megha Chandna, Thang Nguyen, Abhay Vakil, Rene Franco, Iqbal Ratnani, Joseph Varon, Salim Surani

“…The Lazarus phenomenon is rarely encountered and pathophysiology is not very well understood, but physicians need to be aware of this phenomenon. It is prudent that a physician leading a CPR effort waits for some time and monitors the patient further using blood pressure and electrocardiogram before confirming that a patient is actually dead.…”
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Autobiografía y educación en Mis maestros y mi educación de Federico Rubio y Galí by Marie-Hélène Soubeyroux

“…A physician and a politician (Member of Parliament and ambassador in London during the First Republic), Federico Rubio y Galí (1827-1902) is also the author of memoirs (Mis maestros y mi educación) which, although they appear in F. …”
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The Effects of Poverty on Health Outcomes in Nigeria: An ARDL Approach by Abdulrahman Abdulganiyu Idris

“…In order to simulate how poverty affects health outcomes in Nigeria, the study utilized mathematical models to determine whether Nigeria health results (CO2 emission, patients per physician, life expectancy rate, and poverty rate) responds to poverty shock. …”
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Management of pain in rheumatic diseases by Neha Goyal, Mohit Goyal, Vinod Ravindran

“…Pain is often the presenting symptom of many rheumatic diseases, the predominant disabling symptom, the reason for frequent visits to the physician and a major cause of medical absenteeism, loss of work hours, and financial burden on the society. …”
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Severe Thrombocytopenia Two Weeks Following Immunization with the Janssen Ad26.CoV2.S Vaccine by Bana Antonios, Markie Zimmer, Emma Herrman, Ramona Berghea

“…Here, we present a case of a 52-year-old male with no past medical history who sought evaluation with his primary care physician for upper and lower extremity ecchymosis of one week duration. …”
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The Clinical Method and the Clinical Dilemmas. by Luis Alberto Corona Martinez, Mercedes Fonseca Hernández

“…Different factors that can diminish the quality of obtained clinical information, thus interfering with the diagnostic process, have been classified into four groups: dependent on disease process, dependent on the individual patient or the source of information, dependent on the setting where information was obtained and dependent on the physician. As a generalization we state that the existence of the so-called challenges or dilemmas in clinical approach imply limitations to the clinical information obtained to be used with total reliability. …”
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A Case of Respiratory Epithelial Adenomatoid Hamartoma (REAH) in a Patient with History of Radiation Exposure by Darshan N. Patel, Yekaterina A. Koshkareva, Miles McFarland, Nathan A. Deckard

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Metastatic Ureteral Involvement of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Koichi Kodama, Tetsuya Imao, Kazuto Komatsu

“…Although rare, in patients of non-small cell lung cancer, presence of hydronephrosis should alert the physician to the possibility of metastasis.…”
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