• Read the case • Vote on the controversy • Submit your comment Our latest Clinical Decisions presents the brief fictional vignette of a 12-year-old girl named Meredith, who has no history of medical illness and does not engage in regular physical activity, other than her school gym class, which lasts 30 minutes twice a… Read More…
Whether to screen for prostate cancer is an open question for clinicians and patients. Our latest Clinical Decisions presents the case vignette of a 55-year-old man who reports to the primary care clinic for a routine exam and asks whether or not he should have a PSA test. An argument to recommend prostate cancer screening… Read More…
The latest Clinical Decisions asks about a 55-year-old physician who practices internal medicine with a strong subspecialty in endocrinology. He holds time-unlimited certificates from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in both internal medicine and endocrinology, known as “grandfather” status because recertification is not required as it is for younger physicians. Should he voluntarily… Read More…
Our latest Clinical Decisions presents the case of a 25-year-old woman with incidentally identified hepatitis C virus infection. Three possible treatment options, any of which could be considered correct, are provided. We asked you to vote for one and welcomed comments about your choice. A broad selection of these comments are now available for your… Read More…
Our popular Clinical Decisions feature centers on what you would do in a given clinical setting and why. The latest in this series presented the fictional case of a 56-year-old homeless man found to have a subarachnoid hemorrhage and acute hydrocephalus. He was in a coma, and his prognosis, at best, was to be left… Read More…
A record number of readers voted on our latest Clinical Decisions interactive feature, where we described a fictional case of a college basketball player with a large red welt on his buttock. We provided three independent treatment opinions, and we invited you to select which you favored. Over 11,000 votes were cast, the most since… Read More…
