By Susanna Jeurling
Peer Reviewed
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently finalized its position regarding annual low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scanning for early detection of lung cancer. The grade B recommendation …
Category: Class Act
Clinical Correlations
Infection Transmission During Air Travel
May 7, 2014
By Aaron Smith, MD
Peer Reviewed
It’s become a familiar site to travelers: airline passengers wearing respiratory masks to filter pathogens from the cabin air. To those not wearing masks, the fashion trend …
Is the Funduscopic Exam Worthwhile For the General Practitioner?
May 2, 2014
By Emily Fisher
Peer Reviewed
Some have said that physical examination is a dying art and the nondilated funduscopic exam may be one of the best examples of this. …
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Impact on Patients and Preventive Medicine
April 25, 2014
By Neelesh Rastogi
Peer Reviewed
In reference to the $100,000 he spent to research the genetic basis of the pancreatic cancer that ultimately killed him, Steve Jobs famously said, “I’m either going …
Should Physicians Ask Patients about Guns?
April 11, 2014
By Jennifer Zhu
Peer Reviewed
After the elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT in December 2012 that left 20 children and 6 adults dead, the country reacted as it had …
Orders Of Magnitude
March 21, 2014
By Olivia Richardson, MD
On the order of angstroms,
infinitesimally small
nucleotides pair off
and cling tightly to one another,
inseparable,
hundreds of kilojoules
binding them.
Like teenagers they dance,
entangled.
With arms entwined
they spin around one another-
spinning …
The Blue Phone and the Bow-Tie
March 14, 2014
By Joseph Zakhar
Peer Reviewed
The Patient:
Fate is the sound of a ringing phone.
I, however, am growing to hate the sound.
I’m strangled by the words, by the rough sheets, the …
From The Archives: Intercessory Prayer: What Do Sneezes and Prayers Have in Common?
March 13, 2014
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated September 21, 2011
By Alon Mass
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The overlap between religion and medicine is ancient. On a recent medical volunteer trip to India I met a medical student who proudly wore …