Screening for Cushing Syndrome at the Primary Care Level: What Every General Practitioner Must Know by Ernest Yorke, Yacoba Atiase, Josephine Akpalu, Osei Sarfo-Kantanka

“…The clinical awareness of the primary care physician (PCP) to the highly indicative signs and symptoms such as facial plethora, proximal myopathy, reddish purple striae, and easy bruisability should alert him to look for biochemical evidence of Cushing’s syndrome through any of the first-line screening tests, namely, 24-hour urinary free cortisol, overnight dexamethasone suppression test, or late-night salivary cortisol. …”
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Surgical Management of Calciphylaxis Associated with Primary Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Jennifer Bishop, Eric Brown, Augusto Podesta, Cathrine Troy, Xiang (Eric) Dong

“…It is contingent upon the vigilant physician to diagnose and properly manage this difficult yet treatable condition.…”
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Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis: Hidden in Plain Sight by Constantine N. Logothetis, Joel Fernandez, Damian A. Laber

“…The patient had five admissions for heart failure symptoms prior to a physician identifying the etiology as cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis. …”
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Parental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours towards Human Papillomavirus Vaccination for Their Children: A Systematic Review from 2001 to 2011 by Kristina Trim, Naushin Nagji, Laurie Elit, Katherine Roy

“…Parents had safety concerns and wanted more information their physician from to recommend and to confidently HPV vaccinate their children.…”
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Persistent Lymphadenopathy due to IgG4-Related Disease by Benjamin Smith, Matthew B. Carroll

“…A 28-year-old healthy female presented to her primary care physician with lymphadenopathy, fatigue, malaise, and night sweats. …”
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A Case of Apoplexy of Rathke’s Cleft Cyst Followed by Cerebral Infarction by Yu-ichiro Ohnishi, Yasunori Fujimoto, Koichi Iwatsuki, Toshiki Yoshimine

“…However, the attending physician did not find this abnormal finding on CT and the patient was discharged the same day. …”
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Factor structure of the Jefferson Scale for Empathy among medical undergraduates from South India by Samir Kumar Praharaj, Santosh Salagre, Podila Sathya Venkata Narasimha Sharma

“…The Jefferson Scale for Empathy (JSE) is a commonly used tool to measure physician empathy and has been used in medical students as well; however, the psychometric properties have not been well studied in India. …”
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Exploring Psycho-Social Factors Influencing Exclusive Breastfeeding: Lived Experiences of First Time Mothers at Salaga Municipal Hospital, Savannah Region in Ghana by Felix Amekpor, Christa Osei-Mensah, Nancy Adjeley Adjieteh, Esther Nyaapoka Dok-Yen, Memunatu Babariyor Salamu

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Study on Three-Dimensional Digital Expression and Robot Bending Method of Orthodontic Archwire by Jingang Jiang, Xuefeng Ma, Yongde Zhang, Biao Huo, Yi Liu

“…The error rate of the experimental and ideal values is between 2.94% and 6.74%. It can meet the physician’s basic requirements after simple modification. …”
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Assisted suicide: Ethical considerations and the South African debate by A Van Eeden, S Nemutandani, M Meiring, L B Honey, H (WJ) Steinberg, T Hardcastle, M Bac, J V Larsen, K Michael, M Louw, W Sieling

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Treatment of convulsive status epilepticus in Brazil: a review by Luis Otavio Caboclo

“…In the absence of randomized controlled trials, treatment should be guided by the physician's experience, clinical judgment, and established therapeutic options from previous reports.…”
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Epidemiological trends and healthcare disparities in onychomycosis: An analysis of the All of Us research program. by Aditya K Gupta, Vasiliki Economopoulos, Tong Wang, Vincent Piguet

“…Efforts to reduce these inequalities, such as expanded health coverage, reducing communication barriers and increasing patient and physician education are needed.…”
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Case Reports of a New Method for Differential Diagnosis of Calcified Carotid Artery Atheroma by Guilherme Augusto Alves de Oliveira, Cleiterson Rezende de Sá, Omar Ribeiro Santos Junior, Rafael Pereira da Mata Santos, Flávio Ricardo Manzi

“…Manzi Projection can promote a differential diagnosis of calcified atheromas in dental practice and consequently subsidize the clinician for referring the patient to the physician.…”
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Diagnosis and treatment of nervous system diseases at the beginning of the 19th century in Vilnius university clinics by E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė, G. Motiejūnas, D. Jatužis

“… Practical skills have been and are still important in productive professions such as metal and glass processing, watch and tool manufacturing, building, ship building and others. A physician must also acquire certain practical skills in order to properly diagnose the disease and to treat the patient. …”
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Teaching-learning of the "family" content in the General Practitioner’s training from education at work by Mabel Rocha Vázquez, Josè Aurelio Dìaz Quiñones, Norma Mur Villar

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> the "family" content is of vital importance in the General Physician’s training in Cuba because the family is constituted as a group that is the objective of medical care.…”
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Evaluation of the effect of a nurse-led vestibular rehabilitation program enriched with yoga on knowledge levels and vertigo symptoms in patients with vertigo by Gayathri Selvaraj, Santhanasamy Punitha, Ganesan Dayanidy, Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

“…By contrast, the control group received standard care, including prescription of drugs by the physician and follow-up. Data collection involved structured instruments, including sociodemographic and clinical variables, a multiple-choice questionnaire to gauge knowledge levels, and a 5-point Likert scale to measure the intensity of vertigo symptoms. …”
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Primary Bronchopulmonary Actinomycosis Masquerading as Lung Cancer: Apropos of Two Cases and Literature Review by Stamatis Katsenos, Iosif Galinos, Panagiota Styliara, Nikoletta Galanopoulou, Konstantinos Psathakis

“…The disease can mimic lung malignancy given its nonspecific clinical and radiological presentation, thus posing a diagnostic dilemma to the attending physician. In this paper, we describe two patients with pulmonary actinomycosis mimicking bronchogenic carcinoma; the former presented with peripheral infiltrate and associated hilar/mediastinal lymphadenopathy and the latter presented with a foreign body-induced endobronchial mass. …”
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Modeling and scientific analysis of pediatric medication evaluation based on MDM-DEA-Malmquist model: construction of health management in pediatrics in developing countries by Kaixian Fang, Shaoqin Xue

“…Results We found that indicators such as physician literacy, health records, child status, and parental awareness were the most important under different medication cycles and goals. …”
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Diegif: An efficient and secured DICOM to EGIF conversion framework for confidentiality in machine learning training by Abdullah Al Siam, Md Maruf Hassan, Md Atikur Rahaman, Masuk Abdullah

“…The framework comprises four key components: (1) converting DICOM files to GIF format with encryption, (2) decrypting EGIF files for processing, (3) enabling confidentiality-preserving machine learning training using EGIF data, and (4) facilitating physician diagnosis and report generation based on trained machine learning models. …”
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The convergence of health system resources and health outcome in Central Europe and the Baltic region by Shailender Singh, Chitra Krishnan, Nishant Kumar, Supriya Lamba Sahdev

“…The panel result favors the existence of convergence in the three variables employed as health system resources – physician density, nurses’ density, and per capita current health expenditure. …”
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