Twenty-five years ago I was told by my partner who had considerably more experience than I that the best way to build a medical practice was to follow the 3 "A's of medicine". In order of relevance they are availability, affability, and ability. Ability comes third because unless a doctor is available to patients so they come enough to like him, they would never know if he has any ability.
In diarrhea patients, a frozen capsule fetal microbiota transplantation treatment can be effective to eliminate symptoms.
The fact that cigarette smoking is dangerous to a person's health is not a new concept, but a recent study took a more direct view of just how much damage smokers in the United States do to themselves through what was described as "major medical conditions."
Heart patients who have bouts of hypotension while hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) have an increased risk of an adverse outcome within 30 days, a multi-institutional study found. Priyesh Patel, MD, and colleagues, writing in Circulation reported on their analysis of results of the ASCEND-HF study.
Stress cardiomyopathy is a unique cardiac syndrome in which transient left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction mimics acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It is usually brought on by acute emotional or physical stress (or both) and has 3 distinctive features: acute LV wall dysfunction, absence of significant obstructive coronary artery disease, and rapid improvement of LV systolic function within days or weeks.