The rapid acceleration of the adoption of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the number of needed follow-up communications to discuss diagnostic results, to assess or reassess...
Primary care physicians should be aware of several key points about the management of obesity, including how to address it during patient visits, how to treat it with pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic...
Jesse D. Bracamonte, DO1 • Michael Underhill, DO1 • Denise Schweda, MD2
Jesse D. Bracamonte, DO1 • Michael Underhill, DO1 • Denise Schweda, MD2
A 44-year-old, non-smoking man presented to his primary care physician for an annual exam and reported having a deeply pigmented tongue lesion that has been visible since childhood.
In this article, Scott T. Vergano, MD, writes about the role of the primary care provider in children and youth with cerebral palsy, the risk of cardiovascular diseases associated with medications used in...
A 56-year-old man presented with a 4-month history of an asymptomatic rash on his bilateral thighs. He also reported occasional sores in his mouth. On further questioning, the patient reported recent weight...
Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is a potentially unrecognized complication of obesity that carries a significant health care burden and worrisome morbidity and mortality rates. OHS appears to be a...
A 7-year-old girl with no relevant medical history presented to the emergency department for evaluation of loss of consciousness. The patient’s mother reported that the girl had a 1-day history of headache...
Copper deficiency myeloneuropathy has been well studied in animal species, but the relationship with neurologic disease in humans has been identified only recently. Neurologic findings of copper deficiency...
