Much of modern medical practice involves treating patients with asymptomatic conditions or
risk factors which I call 'diseases the doctors says you've got'. These generally asymptomatic …

Medicine is continuously chan-ging—screening tools, diagnostic assays, and new
medications and treatment modalities are rapidly being developed. However, in this age of …

He and others predict that one day doctors won't just take your blood pressure and check
your temperature. They will scrutinize your genome for risk factors and track tens of …

To the untrained eye, the multitude of symptoms and signs our patients reveal suggest
confusion and uncertainty. Development of the clinical method has provided a systematic …

That's something you AI lot will never have.'i I'I would never dare contradict you, Dr Wheeler,
but the data I use to make clinical predictions derives from every published medical record …

2954 The Journal of Clinical Investigation http://www. jci. org Volume 121 Number 8 August
2011 of patienthood with diseases that demand treatment according to guidelines and/or …

Dear Editor: Doetor Martin has put the-matter in regard to “one man practice” so concisely
that I cannot improve on it.“One man practice” should have stopped long ago. For a time one …

In an interview in last month's Men's Health magazine, celebrity chef Nigel Slater (of whose
writings and recipes I am a long-standing admirer) was asked, if the prime minister were to …

You've got to love a good physical examination, perhaps almost as much as a good history.
There's something satisfying about the detective work of being observant enough to pick up …

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