Volume 1 Issue 6 – Summer 2005
Becoming a Physician: Audio Interview with Katharine Treadway, MD – An NEJM Original Article
The New England Journal of Medicine has recently started including audio interviews on NEJM Online. In this interview, Dr. Treadway recalls a story she tells every year to her “Patient-Doctor 2″ class of second year medical students.
Becoming a Physician: Notes to the Class-First Day – An NEJM Original Article
Becoming a Physician: Notes to the Class-First Day Perspective Article by K. Treadway, NEJM, May 12 2005, Vol 352(19) What does it mean to be compassionate as a doctor? Certain studies demonstrate that among medical students, the “commitment to the well being of others either withers or turns into something barely recognizable” by the end [...]
Assessment and Treatment of the Overweight Child and Adolescent – An NEJM Original Article
Clinical Practice by W.H. Dietz and T.N. Robinson, NEJM, May 19 2005, Vol 352(20)
How are physicians advising parents and children on the health risks of being overweight? Does today’s medicine offer effective ways of managing weight? Drs. Dietz and Robinson begin with an individual case, describe the clinical problem, and offer their recommendations on how to work with parents and children.
A 17-Year-Old Girl With Respiratory Distress and Hemiparesis After Surviving A Tsunami – An NEJM Original Article
Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital by A. Kao et al., NEJM, June 23 2005, Vol 352(25)
In this case record, physicians from the MGH discuss the case of a teenage girl via teleconference aboard the hospital ship U.S.N.S. Mercy. Although healthy prior to the tsunamis in Indonesia on December 26, 2004, this young woman arrived aboard the hospital ship with respiratory distress and hemiparesis (paralysis on one side of the body).
Losing Your First Patient
With contributions by Frank Brincheiro, MD, Rebekah M. Chapnick, MD, and Susan D. Block, MD
Losing a patient is one of the most stressful and daunting events during the career of a physician. How do physicians-in-training reconcile the loss of a first patient with their commitment to deliver the best health care possible and the need to be sensitive and compassionate?
Physician Shortages: Family Practice in Rural Communities
A Perspective with Howard K. Rabinowitz, MD, Thomas Jefferson University
Twenty percent of Americans live in rural areas, but these areas are some of the most underserved regions with respect to healthcare. Why is there a shortage of physicians practicing in rural areas despite potentially higher standards of living? What is being done to reverse this trend?
