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This Viewpoint in JAMA’s Diagnostic Excellence series explores the diagnosis of conditions from the patient’s perspective.
This Viewpoint discusses the value of patient time in cancer care and considers its importance in existing oncology frameworks and clinical decision-making.
This cross-sectional study examines whether author experience and method of note entry are associated with the length and redundancy of progress notes among multiple medical specialties.
This review provides updated evidence on general health checks in multiple important outcome domains, including mortality, cardiovascular outcomes, and risk factor control.
In this narrative medicine essay, a primary care physician describes a binder in which he keeps the face sheet, cards, obituaries, and notes on the patients who died while in his care—a memory book that marks the arc of his career and the impermanence of life.
This Medical News feature describes the impact of open visit notes on patient care.
This Viewpoint proposes that psychiatry should more closely attend to the poverty, justice system involvement, and housing issues of people with serious mental illness, supporting this view with quotes from philosophers.
This case-control study examines the prevalence of salvageable tissues 16 hours or more from the time the patient was last known well after ischemic stroke due to emergent large vessel occlusion and investigates the effectiveness of endovascular treatment in delayed large vessel occlusion.
This article describes the author’s experience of helping a family do everything they could, even administering an unapproved drug, for their teenage daughter.
This Viewpoint describes why health misinformation spreads, characterizes a broader set of misinformation types, and discusses solutions to this problem.
This essay offers advice to psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians regarding working with a patient who evokes anxiety and fear in the clinician regarding their own physical safety or the safety of others.
This article assesses the loss of the physical examination amid telehealth visits during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
This Viewpoint discusses the challenges faced by older adults with diabetes and ways to care for them during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this narrative medicine essay, an internist considers the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on noninfected patients whose access to care may be blocked by fear, economic loss, or an overwhelmed health care system.
This systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials compares intraoperative and postoperative outcomes of temperature-controlled surgical instruments vs electrocautery in adolescents and adults undergoing tonsillectomy.
This narrative review discusses biological and social factors associated with sex- and gender-based differences in health, health care, and disease to provide a guide for clinicians practicing precision medicine.
In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatric palliative oncologist meditates on the intersection of faith and medicine and of varying expressions of spirituality in the face of abject pain and suffering among her pediatric patients with cancer.
In this narrative medicine essay, a surgical oncologist recalls helping her mother through her treatment and death from lung cancer and tells of the lesson she brought back to her own practice from the experience that the essence of clinical care is human connection: the ability to listen to others, witness their suffering, hear their joy, and be present in their company.
In this narrative medicine essay, a resident physician shares the story of a young Haitian woman with cancer whose survival was threatened with deportation for having missed her residency application deadline and of his role in advocating for her care with US citizenship and immigration services.
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