Top stories in health and medicine, October 31, 2014

From MedPage Today: Minor Memory Problems Merit Attention. Patients who reported having lost a step mentally were at nearly triple the risk of being diagnosed with definite cognitive impairment later on, albeit with a lag of about 6 to 10 years. Munchausen by Proxy: A Case Study of Abuse. If you do an extensive workup on a patient with a very attentive parent and can’t find anything wrong, Munchausen syndrome by proxy might be at play. Docs Misclassify IBD in Survey. The severity of inflammatory bowel disease is significantly underestimated by gastroenterologists. Ebola: ‘We Were Warned’. Since its founding in 1971, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated more than 100 million patients, and since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, MSF doctors and nurses have treated more than 4,500 Ebola patients. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how.
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