Commentary
ID Consult
Get patients vaccinated: Avoid unwelcome international travel souvenirs
A trip to a travel medicine physician can protect patients from returning from international travel with an unwelcome infection.
Commentary
Analysis: Why Alexa’s bedside manner is bad for health care
It remains an open question whether virtual medicine will prove a valuable, convenient adjunct to health care. Or, instead, will it become a way...
Letters from Maine
A longing for belonging
Dr. Wilkoff explains how giving a patient a diagnosis fills a longing for belonging.
Opinion
Legal duty to nonpatients: Communicable diseases
A health care provider can sometimes be found liable to one other than his or her immediate patient, notwithstanding the absence of a provider-...
Opinion
Patient-centered care in clinic
Use the computer as a bond to strengthen your relationship with your patient.
Letters from Maine
Connected care
Telemedicine, perhaps better termed connected care, can occur at many levels.
Child Psychiatry Consult
Beyond symptom improvement: Practicing happiness
Being “not depressed” or “not anxious” is not the same as flourishing.
Opinion
Addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of trans and gender nonconforming patients
Understanding how trans or GNC patients have sex is essential to providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care.
ID Consult
Young children with neuromuscular disease are vulnerable to respiratory viruses
How much does palivizumab help?
LGBT Youth Consult
How medical providers can observe LGBT Pride Month
Health care providers have an important responsibility in fostering health equity for LGBT youth in a responsible and ethical matter.
Commentary
Is it measles? – Diagnosis and management for the pediatric provider
The measles rash appears 2-4 days after the onset of fever, and is initially maculopapular and blanching.