Highlights from ACP Internist and ACP Hospitalist

ACP Internist September 2016

• Clearing the air about climate change
  Climate change is a public health issue, and physicians should be aware of the potential medical consequences and be able to communicate those to patients.
   
• Fibromyalgia characterized by controversy
  There is very clear, objective evidence that fibromyalgia is a real problem. But there remains considerable dissent among the medical community about the condition's cause.
   
• Digging into the causes and fixes of resistant hypertension
  An enduring challenge is figuring out why patients appear to have resistant hypertension and how to cure them of it.

ACP Hospitalist August 2016

• Psych Teams
  Psychiatric comanagement brings expert care to vulnerable patients.
   
• Rounding's not just for clinicians
  Hospitalists work to make rounds more patient-centered.
   
• Who should receive inferior vena cava filters?
  Consults, new data can help hospitalists decide.

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