Repeatedly Malignant ST-Segment Elevation
This case report describes a patient in their early 50s who presented with epigastric pain and jaundice and had significantly decreased heart rate after admission. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 20, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Giving Patients the Focused Attention They Deserve
This viewpoint discusses the need for physicians to give focused attention to patients and the challenges that prevent them from doing so and suggests goals to create conditions that ensure that physicians are fully present during patient visits. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Need for AI Vigilance to Safeguard Health Care
This study examines whether artificial intelligence (AI) models can be manipulated for the generation of targeted health disinformation regarding vaccines and vaping. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Spielberg ’s Secret
This essay describes how a podcast inspired a physician ’s new approach to complimenting patients and colleagues and the benefits gained. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
I Am Worried I Have Sciatica —What Do I Need to Know?
This JAMA Internal Medicine Patient Page reviews sciatica, its symptoms, and treatment options for those who have it. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Unusual Tachycardia After Cocaine Use —Reply
In Reply I thank Lin and He for their interest in my case report. Most of their points were already addressed in detail, however. Determining the cause of bidirectional ventricular tachycardia (BVT) was clearly addressed when I stated that “treatment of BVT should consider the cause of the arrhythmia.” Gastric lavage for treatment of aconitine ingestion was also mentioned. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Unusual Tachycardia After Cocaine Use
To the Editor We read with great interest a recent case report by Kawji. It reports of a patient with bidirectional ventricular tachycardia (BVT) induced by cocaine use and mentions electrical cardioversion as a last resort, which we find is inappropriate. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Widening Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the US
This cross-sectional study systematically examines the contributions of COVID-19 and other underlying causes of death to the widened gender life expectancy gap from 2010 to 2021. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Shift From Smoking Cigarettes to Vaping Nicotine in Young Adults
This survey study assesses trends in nicotine use among young adults in the US between 2013 and 2021. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Health Disinformation —Gaining Strength, Becoming Infinite
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the population of the US, causing over 1 million deaths and an even greater number of hospitalizations or cases of post –COVID-19 condition (also referred to colloquially as long COVID), but perhaps the most sorrowful remembrance will be the unnecessary losses in lives. Even after messenger RNA vaccines became widely available by the spring of 2021, the COVID-19 deaths continued to climb because of widescale vaccin e refusal. One estimate found that between the end of May 2021 and beginning of September 2022, more than 200 000 deaths could have been prevented had those adults been immun...
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
AMI Revealed by an Escape Rhythm in a Patient With Failed Sgarbossa Criteria
This case report describes a man in his 80s with a medical history of essential hypertension who presented to the emergency department with sudden onset epigastric pain. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 13, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Talking About Dying
This essay describes a palliative medicine physician ’s experience with a dying patient and reflections on life. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 6, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Overnight Stay in the Emergency Department and Mortality in Older Patients
This French cohort study evaluates in-hospital mortality and adverse effects among older adults ( ≥75 years) who waited overnight in the emergency department for a bed in a hospital ward. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 6, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Disability and Caregiving Around Long-Term Care Facilities Entry
This cohort study describes disability and caregiving before and after long-term care facility entry, comparing nursing home, assisted living, and independent living entrants. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 6, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Nonfunctional Adrenal Adenomas and Increased Risk of Mortality —Reply
In Reply We appreciate the comments from Depczynski et al and Bioletto et al regarding our article “Mortality in Patients With Nonfunctional Adrenal Tumors.” We will address the comments from Depczynski et al first. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - November 6, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
