From all of us to all of you …Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Clinical Correlations will be on a short hiatus. We will resume publishing 1/6/2015.
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Mystery Quiz
December 2, 2014Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The patient is an 82 year old man with frequent breathlessness. The patient had been admitted several times in the past two years for congestive heart failure. Two years earlier, the patient suffered an NSTEMI. A diagnostic cardiac catheterization revealed triple vessel coronary disease. A …
Does Cranberry Juice Prevent Urinary Tract Infections?
September 11, 2014
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated November 9, 2011
By Jessie Yu
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A healthy 21-year-old female college student presents to clinic after one day of dysuria and increased frequency. You diagnose her with a recurrent urinary tract …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
July 29, 2014
By Grace Huang, MD
Peer Reviewed
Many of us became familiar with the Ebola virus after reading Richard Preston’s fictional thriller, The Hot Zone. However, in recent months, fiction has turned to reality in …
Board Exam Nightmare
June 27, 2014
By Michael Tanner, MD
The American Board of Internal Medicine compels us internists to take a 6-hour multiple-choice Maintenance of Certification exam every 10 years. I, by an accident of birth …
A Randomized Trial of Flattery
April 1, 2014
By Michael Tanner, MD
Background
A small body of low-quality evidence suggests that flattery will get you nowhere. We, rigorously applying the tools of evidence-based medicine, set out …
Book Review – Medicine’s Michelangelo: The Life & Art of Frank H. Netter, MD
January 24, 2014
By Matthew Vorsanger, MD
The delicate tracery of the superficial nervous system, the sweeping curves of the lobes of the liver, the bones of the skull – color coded in pastel blues, pinks, and greens. For many of us, …
Happy Thanksgiving
November 28, 2013
Clinical Correlations will be closed for the holiday and will resume posting on Monday 12/2/13. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and remember, please be careful with that turkey…