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Sign Out: The Internet as a classroom in women's health

September 1, 2006

Imagine students in developing countries and the United States simultaneously reviewing the same medical curriculum and learning from each other. That is e-learning at its best in an Internet classroom, and it's the goal of WomensHealthSection.com.

Universal health care: How can anyone be against it?

October 1, 2008

While universal coverage sounds like a great idea on the surface, those who champion the cause have yet to answer many complex social, economic, and ethical questions.

Medicine sustains life, but art is why we stay alive

August 1, 2008

An appreciation for Michaelangelo's Pieta can help doctors find a balance between their professional and personal lives.

Sign Out: Training young, inattentive minds

January 1, 2008

Dr. Pellecchia is training residents and reminisces about his own training with a team of residents and how hard working and responsible they were.

Sign Out: If it ain't broke, why are we fixing it?

October 1, 2007

If the message is you don't need a Pap smear, many patients will hear: you don't need a visit.

Sign Out: Tort reform: A modest proposal

September 1, 2007

The current tort system has all the makings of a perfect storm. As long as we physicians frame our arguments in terms of the burden we bear to pay premiums, and demand caps on non-economic damages as a necessary condition for any systematic reforms, we will continue to fail to transform the system.

Sign Out: Keeping track of the bass line

August 1, 2007

Medicine's backbeat has changed. Physician recommendations never used to be questioned. Then, managed care entered the scene and third party payers became reticent.

Sign Out: Is it time to eliminate the progestin from hormone therapy?

July 1, 2007

We should strive to maintain the use of estrogen therapy wihile minimizing or finding alternatives to the progestins. Patients want a safe way to withstand the menopausal transition, and we can begin by using the lowest effective dose of estrogen with less progestin.

Sign Out: Meta-analysis is to analysis like meta-physics is to physics

June 1, 2007

A meta-analysis is a systematic review of studies that measures the quality of each study and combines the findings in an unbiased manner.

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