Volume 4 Issue 3 – January 2008
The View from the Other Side — Patients, Doctors, and the Power of a Camera – An NEJM Perspective Article
G Berland, NEJM, December 20 2007, Vol 357 (25), 2533-36
Not everything about a patient’s life can be gathered from a brief consultation in a clinic. Dr. Berland has devised a fascinating method of looking into the
personal lives and troubles of her disabled patients – encouraging them to carry a video camera with them. Read about the unique insight that she gained through this novel, simple idea.
Military–Civilian Collaboration in Trauma Care and the Senior Visiting Surgeon Program – An NEJM Special Report
EE Moore et al, NEJM, December 27 2007, Vol 357 (26), 2723-27
Integrating civilian and military medical capabilities has been shown to be vital throughout the nation’s history. The Joint Trauma Training Center was established in Houston in 1999 to train military trauma teams at a civilian hospital. This article peers into the unique cases facing military medicine and describe a system of bringing military doctors up to date.
Childhood Body Mass Index and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Adulthood – An NEJM Original Article
JL Baker, LW Olsen, and TIA Sørensen, NEJM, December 6 2007, Vol 357 (23), 2329-37
The worldwide epidemic of childhood obesity is progressing at an alarming rate, but the severity of the long-term effects of excess childhood weight on coronary heart disease is unknown. In a study with a cohort of over 275,000 schoolchildren and over 5 million person-years of followup, the authors find a definitive link between obesity and coronary heart disease.
Pathways Through Medicine: Specialty Choice
Committing to medicine as a career represents the culmination of a long and perhaps convoluted decision-making process, but the process does not end here. How medical students pick their specialties is another process with its own twists and turns. In addition to offering insight into the Match process, current and prospective residents share their stories on why they avoided certain specialties, how far they deviated from their initial choices, and how they ultimately fell in love with their chosen specialty.
