Commentary by Sarah Moore MD, PGY-2Â
Faculty Peer Reviewed
It has been a difficult week for the stock market and perhaps for some physicians. Most doctors can describe a handful of frustrating patient encounters that …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Mystery Quiz
March 6, 2009Posted by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The patient is a 42 year old male non-smoker with history of poorly controlled asthma (first diagnosed in 1994, recurrent need for steroid treatments but never intubated), severe seasonal allergies with chronic sinusitis, hepatic steatosis, GERD and gout who presented with …
What should the Surgeon General do?
March 4, 2009
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-3, Health Care Policy Section Editor Â
The name of neurosurgeon and health journalist Sanjay Gupta was leaked in early January as Barack Obama’s choice for Surgeon …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
March 2, 2009
Commentary by Michael Tanner MD, Section Editor, Clinical Correlations
Michael Pollan wrote last year in In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, “…the history of modern nutritionism has been a history of …
Prostate Cancer and Antioxidants
February 25, 2009Commentary by Christopher Tully MD, PGY-1
Faculty Peer Reviewed
An apple a day. . . keeps the prostate cancer away? While it is an overstatement to say that an apple can prevent cancer, the notion of taking “something†to prevent cancer initiation and growth is nothing new. Primary prevention has …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
February 23, 2009
Commentary by Ryan Farley MD, PGY-3
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hot off the press from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) this week is an original article comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with coronary …
Morning Report: Hepatorenal Syndrome
February 19, 2009
Commentary by Catherine Lucero MD, PGY-3
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The patient is a 69-year old woman from El Salvador with a chief complaint of worsening abdominal distension for nine months. Three months earlier, the patient …
Is prescribing placebos an ethical practice?
February 18, 2009
Commentary by Antonella Surbone, MD PhD FACP, NYU Department of Medicine, Clinical Correlations Ethics Section Editor
In October 2008, BMJ published a research article entitled “Prescribing placebo treatments: results of a national survey of …