Highlights from ACP Internist and ACP Hospitalist

ACP Internist March 2017

• Details debated in breast screening
  Amid a thicket of competing and sometimes conflicting studies about breast cancer screening, medical groups have adopted differing stances on how to address the conundrum of harms versus benefits.
• Managing medication adherence
  That most nonadherent patients are willfully rejecting doctors' orders might seem shocking. But physicians have to accept it in order to encourage patients to accept their advice. Digital health tools may offer potential aids in solving matters of adherence.

ACP Hospitalist March 2017

• Rethinking cellulitis
  Flaws in diagnosis, prescribing are common.
• Doc, your weight bias is showing
  Physician attitudes can lead to avoidance, delays of care

 

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