Acute sinusitis and the common cold.
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Acute Disease↗
Biomedical subjects
M E Pharr
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The telephone in primary care.
The telephone, a ubiquitous instrument in the practice of medicine, continues to have new applications for clinical practice. The goals of the ever-increasing managed care environment appear to fit nicely with these applications. Heightened attention toward telephone education, protocol development, and documentation are needed. This article reviews characteristics of telephone encounters, the telephone in managed care, trends in "telemedicine," telephone education, and medicolegal aspects of telephone care.
Communication↗
Efficacy of right heart catheterization.
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Cardiac Catheterization↗
The princess and the pea. An unusual complication after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the preferred treatment for uncomplicated cholelithiasis. After brief perioperative surveillance and a follow-up visit, most of patients who have undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy are discharged from further surgical care and treated by their primary care physician. This case report discusses an unusual complication in a patient who presented to her family physician 4 years after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The surgical literature on this complication is reviewed.
Abdomen↗