Analysis of the Approach to Sleep Disorders in the First Year Medical Curriculum by Sandra Cecilia Williams Serrano, Oziel Oxier González, Arlan Machado Rojas, Ian Díaz López

“…We concluded that sleep disorders are not reflected in the curricula as health problems to be addressed by the family physician, which poses a risk for proper screening of these disorders and leads to their underreporting. …”
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Opioid Therapy for Chronic Nonmalignant Pain by Russell K Portenoy

“…This is true despite concerns that the regulatory agencies that oversee physician prescribing of opioid drugs continue to stigmatize the practice. …”
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Reflections on the current context and assessment of undergraduate medical education in Brazil by GERSON ALVES PEREIRA JÚNIOR, RAMIRO COLLEONI NETO, ROSANA ALVES, HERMILA TAVARES VILAR GUEDES, JORGE CARVALHO GUEDES, PEDRO TADAO HAMAMOTO FILHO, JOSÉ EDUARDO LUTAIF DOLCI, CESAR EDUARDO FERNANDES

“…The second part discusses the possibilities of evaluating medical training, which is terminal in Brazil, enabling the newly graduated physician to claim the professional registration and to practice medicine, being evaluated only by their own medical course. …”
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Transvaginal Ultrasound in Fertile Patients with Suspected Appendicitis: An Experience Report of Current Practice by Malek Tabbara, Nikolaos Evangelopoulos, Luigi Raio, Vanessa Banz, Heinz Zimmermann, Corinne Kim-Fuchs, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos

“…TVU is a helpful tool if performed by a physician who is well trained in TVU.…”
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Peritonitis due to Moraxella Osloensis: An Emerging Pathogen by Sreedhar Adapa, Purva Gumaste, Venu Madhav Konala, Nikhil Agrawal, Amarinder Singh Garcha, Hemant Dhingra

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Pancreatic Function, Type 2 Diabetes, and Metabolism in Aging by Zhenwei Gong, Radhika H. Muzumdar

“…As per the NHANES III (Third National Health and Nutrition Examination) survey, the percentage of physician-diagnosed diabetes increased from 3.9% in middle-aged adults (40–49 years) to 13.2% in elderly adults (≥75 years). …”
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Group versus Individual Care in Patients with Long-Standing Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: A One-Year Prospective Noninferiority Study in a Tertiary Diabetes Clinic by Joelle Singer, Sigal Levy, Ilan Shimon

“…Group care was not inferior to individual care for any of the above parameters except for the number of visits to a primary care physician. Conclusion. Group care is feasible in a diabetes clinic and is as effective as individual care. …”
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Computed Tomography Image Segmentation of Lung Corona Virus Infection Region Based on Combination of Grayscale Morphological Reconstruction and Fast Marching Method by Aws Alazawi, Abbas Fadhal Humadi, Huda Farooq Jameel, Huda Ali Hashim, John Soraghan

“…The proposed algorithm applied on archived computed tomography dataset for coronavirus infected patients, results showed consistent determination of ground glass infection region compared to manual delineation of senior physician. The proposed algorithm restricted to empirical adjustment of FMM’s threshold that would be addressed in upcoming study. …”
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Liver Functions in Type 2 Diabetes Individuals after Pfizer Vaccination in Iraqi Patients by Shrooq Ali Hussein, Ahmed Abdul-Hussein Mohsin, Ahmed Ghazi Sabbar

“…A study was carried out in al Suwayrah hospital, which included 300 patients aged 20 to 70 years old. one hundred were excluded from this study. A physician diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes mellitus (the ADA) (the American Diabetes Association, 2021) was involved in this study from December 2021 to March 2022. results showed that AST and ALT were normal, while ALP was higher in diabetics compared to controls (ALP was higher in both groups of diabetics vaccinated and non-vaccinated with Pfizer vaccine compared to controls). correlation with no significant effect on platelet count and D-dimer. …”
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ARMC5 Primary Bilateral Macronodular Adrenal Hyperplasia Associated with a Meningioma: A Family Report by M. J. Ferreira, J. Pedro, D. Salazar, C. Costa, J. Aragão Rodrigues, M. M. Costa, A. Grangeia, J. L. Castedo, D. Carvalho

“…The identification of the pathogenic variant enables the physician to identify and treat these patients earlier and more effectively. …”
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Attitudes of Doctors and Nurses toward the Chronic Care Model by Rolando Bonal Ruiz, Meibis Poll Cabrera

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> a quantitative and qualitative cross-sectional study was conducted including the 22 family physicians and 26 nurses who provide care to patients with chronic diseases and were at the polyclinic at the time of the study. …”
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Laryngeal Fracture after Blunt Cervical Trauma in Motorcycle Accident and Its Management by Nuno Ribeiro-Costa, Pedro Carneiro Sousa, Diogo Abreu Pereira, Paula Azevedo, Delfim Duarte

“…Because of the rarity of this injury, physician may be not aware of its existence, leading to a late diagnosis of this entity. …”
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Evaluation of the Rubber Dam Use of Dentistry Students by Enes Mustafa Aşar

“…Conclusion: The use of rubber dam has numerous clinical benefits for the physician. For this reason, necessary theoretical and practical training should be supported for the widespread use of rubber dams.…”
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COVID-19 impact on bladder cancer treatment by Fabrício Kaminagakura, Marcos F. Dall'Oglio, José A. da Silva Jr., Klebson Rodrigues-Barbosa, Jorge Ocké, Luiz J. Budib

“…Materials and methods: We led a prospective study from February 2020 to October 2020, in which three 2nd-year urology residents, guided by one particular attending physician, performed 20 radical cystectomies in an acute public hospital. …”
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Response to ‘Response to Doctors for Life on Assisted Suicide’ by A Van Eeden, S Nemutandani, M Meiring, L L Honey, H (WJ) Steinberg, T Hardcastle, M Bac, J V Larsen, K Michael, M Louw, W Sieling

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The Influence of Creatine Use on Performance of Swimmers by Hakan Acar, Erkut Tutkun, Osman İmamoğlu, Tülin Atan

“…Its use should be conducted in normal doses under physician control.…”
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The Natural History and Treatment Options for Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms by Joshua E. Loewenstein, Shaneze C. Gayle, E. Jesus Duffis, Charles J. Prestigiacomo, Chirag D. Gandhi

“…To optimize patient outcomes, the physician must weigh aneurysmal rupture risk associated with observation against the complication risks associated with intervention. …”
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Computed tomography reconstruction and morphometric analysis of the humerus and femur in new zealand rabbits by Muhammet Lutfi Selcuk

“…<p> <b>Conclusion:</b> It was thought that this study would provide the basis for studies and experimental models on rabbits by revealing the morphological features of the humerus and femur and would help the physician in the diagnosis of diseases by forming the basis of the data obtained with the imaging systems used in the clinical field.…”
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Pharmacotherapy of Peptic Ulcer Disease by F Molina, MM Vohra, CN Williams

“…The choice of therapeutic agent is generally made according to patient compliance, medication cost, side effects, effectiveness, relapse rate and physician experience with the drug. Long term maintenance therapy is effective in the prevention of ulcer relapse and is especially recommended for selected patient groups, including patients with recurrent or bleeding ulcer, patients with concomitant nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use, and elderly women. …”
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‘Des mémoires sur la vie de cet illustre philosophe’: George Leman Tuthill’s Unwritten Biography of Diderot by Caroline Warman

“…Tuthill later trained as a doctor and became renowned as a physician to various asylums; he therefore boasts an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, but nothing appears there about his earlier ambitions with respect to Diderot, and Diderot scholarship has known nothing about his existence. …”
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