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 a school sweatshirt with the saying: In God we trust. The rest …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
September 19, 2011
By Robert J Gianotti, MD
Welcome to the first autumn installment of Primecuts. Here in upstate New York the leaves are already beginning to change as I drink a tasty mug of Oktoberfest. My day of football …
Advance Directives: A Move in the Right Direction
September 16, 2011
By Sara-Megumi Naylor
Faculty Peer Reviewed
“Tell me…If you were ever unable to make your own decisions about your medical care, is there someone you would trust to make those decisions for you?”
There is silence.
But then a response. We discuss. I …
What is Sister Mary Joseph’s Nodule And Why Is It Significant?
September 15, 2011
By Keri Herzog, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The patient is a 62-year-old male who presented to an outpatient medical clinic complaining of a growing, slightly painful, periumbilical mass, and mild lower gastrointestinal discomfort over the last 4 months. On examination, the …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
September 13, 2011
By Joshua Strauss, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This past week included the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against our city and our nation. We remember the horror of that morning, …
Avastin and the Meaning of Evidence
September 9, 2011
By Antonella Surbone MD PhD and Jerome Lowenstein MD
The recent hearings at the Food and Drug Administration regarding the revocation of approval for the use of Avastin in the treatment of breast cancer [1,2,3] bring into sharp focus several very …
Should My Patient with a Solid Tumor be Anticoagulated in the Absence of Venous Thromboembolism?
September 8, 2011
By David Altszuler, Class of 2012
Faculty Peer Reviewed
An empiric association between occult malignancy and thrombophlebitis has been recognized since Trousseau first reported the syndrome in 1865.[1] The mechanism by which cancer predisposes to thrombophilia has not been fully elucidated; however, …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
September 6, 2011
By Keri Herzog, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hurricane Irene came and went. Its path of destruction brought flooding and powerful winds, forcing evacuations, causing loss of power and extensive structural damage. It was a time where we all came together, not only …