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MKSAP Quiz: evaluating ‘a sense of unsteadiness'

This week's quiz asks readers to evaluate ongoing dizziness in an elderly woman.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/09/3.htm
9 Aug 2011

Mortality with later hip fracture surgery linked to medical reasons for delay

Late hip fracture surgery carries a higher mortality risk than early surgery, but mostly because of underlying medical reasons for the delay, according to a new study.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/16/6.htm
16 Aug 2011

Alzheimer's markers make management tougher

New guidelines and diagnostic advances are identifying Alzheimer's disease and its precursors much earlier in the course of the disease. The bad news is that, for now at least, these improvements may only create more dilemmas for general internists for the role of biomarkers and communicating with patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/09/alzheimers.htm
1 Sep 2011

Nominees named for College Officer and Regent positions

Nominations for ACP President and Board of Regents.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/11/regents.htm
1 Nov 2011

Draft criteria on medication use in older adults posted for public comment

The American Geriatrics Society has released an updated draft of its Beers criteria for potential inappropriate medication use in older adults and is calling for public comment.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/11/22/7.htm
22 Nov 2011

Letters to the Editor

Readers submit their thoughts on using scribes and paying for medical school.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/04/letters.htm
1 Apr 2012

College Fellow named Dartmouth Medical School's senior associate dean for medical education

Richard J. Simons, MD, FACP, has been named senior associate dean for medical education and associate vice president for health affairs at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/04/03/13.htm
3 Apr 2012

Diving into delicate patient conversations

Delivering unpleasant news is one of the hardest tasks a physician faces. Assessing sensitive topics heightens the difficulty, and two physicians at Internal Medicine 2012 address ways to handle especially sensitive areas: sexual history, and the inability to safely drive a car.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/06/delicate.htm
1 Jun 2012

Baby boomers' health isn't what they expect

The normal aspects of aging will place extraordinary demands on the health care system as the baby boomers enter their retirement years. Sheer numbers, coupled with high expectations of this population, pose a problem for primary care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/07/boomers.htm
1 Jul 2012

Positions on health care reform aren't all black and white

ACP's health care positions can't be neatly labeled as coming from one political perspective or another. A wide array of issues requires consideration.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/07/washington.htm
1 Jul 2012

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