Geriatric Medicine  Aging Aging is the progressive, universal decline first in functional reserve and then in function that occurs in…

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Medical Evaluation of the Surgical Patient Cardiovascular and pulmonary complications continue to account for major morbidity and mortality in patients…

Medical Disorders during Pregnancy Each year, approximately 4 million births occur in the United States, and more than 130 million…

Womens Health: Introduction The study of biologic differences between sexes has emerged as a distinct scientific discipline. A report from…

Principles of Clinical Pharmacology Drugs are the cornerstone of modern therapeutics. Nevertheless, it is well recognized among physicians and in…

Screening and Prevention of Disease: Introduction A primary goal of health care is to prevent disease or detect it early…

Why Global Health? Global health, it has been noted, is not a discipline; it is, rather, a collection of problems.…

Decision-Making in Clinical Medicine: Introduction To a medical student who requires 2 hours to collect a patient’s history and perform…

The Modern-Day Physician No greater opportunity, responsibility, or obligation can fall to the lot of a human being than to…