The culture of medicine teaches doctors to bury their feelings and suppress the grief that comes with their disappointments, losses, and mistakes. More physicians are turning to e-mail to reconnect with their patients and handle myriad simple medical problems. It's been called the shadow epidemic. This review covers what primary care physicians need to know about transmission, detection, clinical course, and treatment.
Calls Used wisely, e-mail with patients can reduce chaos and improve communication.
A leader in the human genome project reflects on how the gene map could color our self-perception. The past director of the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine discusses the public's attraction to alternative healing, and how physicians can respond. A physician follows the divergent fortunes of two Medicare patients. By Toni Martin, MD Great Moments in Medicine Lord of Antisepsis Building on Louis Pasteur's insights, Joseph Lister championed antisepsis. All rights reserved.