The Literature, Arts, and Medicine blog focuses on topics in the medical humanities. Written primarily by invited contributors, it brings perspectives of the social sciences, humanities, and arts to current issues in medical education and training; health policy; patient-physician interaction; caregiver experience and patient experience. The blog is edited by Felice Aull, who recently retired from the NYUSOM faculty and is now adjunct associate curator. She is founding editor of a widely used resource for medical humanities teaching and scholarship, The Literature,…

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By: Erin E. Ducharme, MD  PGY-1

With deep and humble gratitude we thank our nation’s veterans for the selfless sacrifices they and their families have made to establish and preserve the costly freedoms we take for granted.   On this Thanksgiving and in celebration of Veteran’s Day we are reinvigorated in our efforts to uphold the promise made by President Lincoln in his second inaugural address, “to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan.” As physicians…

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Commentary by Cara Litvin MD, Executive Editor, Clinical Correlations

We are proud to announce that our editor-in-chief, Neil Shapiro MD, has been selected by ACP Hospitalist as a Top Hospitalist for his work to establish and maintain Clinical Correlations and is currently featured in the ACP Hospitalist magazine. Neil was chosen as one out of only ten physicians who were selected for “making notable contributions to the field.” As the article states, the main goal of Clinical Correlations has always been to foster interest and excitement in internal medicine.  Having…

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Clinical Correlations is listed as #9 in a recent listing of the top 100 academic medical blogs. We’re proud of this recognition and wanted to share it with all of our readers.  Thanks for your support, and we look forward to continuing to work to make Clinical Correlations even better.

-the Editors

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It’s been quite a year in the life of Clinical Correlations. One year ago today we officially announced the creation of Clinical Correlations, the NYU internal medicine blog, to the NYU medical community. Starting from scratch without much of a game plan we developed a website (a word I greatly prefer to blog) that we hoped would simultaneously inspire students, housestaff and faculty. I am so proud to say that I think we have accomplished this goal. In this year, I have learned that…

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Clinical Correlations will be closed for the holiday and will resume posting on Monday 11/26/07.  Have a very happy Thanksgiving and remember, be careful with that turkey…

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Commentary by Cara Litvin MD, Executive Editor, Clinical Correlations 

I frowned as my patient handed over some papers to me at a regularly scheduled follow-up clinic visit. For the second time in a row, he had been admitted to an outside hospital for syncope in the interval between his visits with me. The cryptic discharge summaries provided very little information about his work-up. “Follow-up with primary MD” was scribbled on the latest discharge summary, without any test results provided. My initial instinct was…

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Commentary By David Shapiro, MD, Former Chief of Allergy and Immunology, Winthrop University Medical Center and New York Ear Infirmary Hospital, Attending Physician OPD Allergy and Immunology, New York Hospital (and most importantly, father of Neil Shapiro, MD)

I highly recommend a new book that has become an instant bestseller, How Doctors Think published two weeks ago by Houghton Mifflin. The author, Dr. Jerome Groopman, is Professor of Medicine (Oncology and Immunology) at Harvard School of Medicine and Chief of Experimental Medicine at…

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Our next med-surg conference is Thursday March 29 at 4:30pm. It will be comprised of two heated debates. The first will be a debate over the need for surgery in asymptomatic patients with a severe carotid artery stenosis featuring Greg Mints, MD and vascular surgeon, Thomas Riles, MD The second debate will answer the question of whether there is a need for bone biopsy in the treatment of osteomyelitis. Pro: Harold Horowitz, MD from ID Con: Nirmal Tejwani, MD from orthopedics. We look forward to seeing you there.…

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Although it’s almost spring and the spate of “best of the year” lists are now long gone, I recently came across this list from the AMA news. It’s a summary of their most intriguing facts of 2006. It’s fascinating stuff. Some of the highlights with links are below. Click here to view the entire list.

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Due to vital conflicting commitments (vacation), Clinical Correlations will be closed until March 6th when we will resume posting new content. This is the perfect opportunity to catch up on our previous content and to think about what you’d like to see on clinical correlations in the future. Search by date or by category with the toolbar at the right of this post. As always send us any comments or feedback to clinicalcorrelations@gmail.com. Have a great week.

Fishing from Wikipedia

Vacation from Wikipedia

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You may have noticed a few changes here at Clinical Correlations. First if you look at the top of the page we have a great new logo created by a professional graphics arts designer. Second, if you look just below the logo, there is now a link to a page entitled The Essential Reading Lists. This link takes you to a bibliography listing the essential articles as picked by our faculty members of the NYU Internal Medicine Curriculum Committee. The lists do not yet include…

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