ACP Internist January 2016
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Bariatric surgery may be an option for severely obese patients for whom lifestyle changes are not enough. Internists can set up expectations that may improve postsurgical outcomes. -
Doctors treating patients who live in lower-income urban areas may need more in-depth understanding of how environment might shape their patients' health, and may even need to venture outside the office to better understand their patients' life circumstances. -
A postdischarge transition clinic staffed by a primary care physician and other clinicians appeared to reduce readmission risk in a vulnerable patient population.
ACP Hospitalist December 2015
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Facilities take new approaches to survive familiar challenges. -
Everyone wants to do it, but how? -
Biomarkers, automated systems, and rapid diagnostics.
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