November 30, 2011
- AMA PASSES TWO ATS RESOLUTIONS
- CLINICAL CASE: PERSISTENT DYSPNEA DESPITE MAXIMAL MEDICAL THERAPY IN COPD
- GOING CRAZY TRYING TO REMEMBER PASSWORDS?
- ABOUT ATS STAT
AMA PASSES TWO ATS RESOLUTIONS
The first resolution called upon the AMA to formally express its disappointment with President Obama and his failure to revise the Clean Air Act standard for ozone. Just as the Environmental Protection Agency was gearing up to issue stricter ozone air pollution standards, President Obama halted the agency's effort, delaying action on the standard until 2013. To read the resolution, click here.
The second resolution called upon the AMA to send a letter to the U.S. Department of State explaining the negative impact current visa practices are having on medical and scientific progress and urging policy changes that remove barriers in the business and travel visa process that prevent international physicians and scientists seeking to attend U.S.-based medical and scientific conferences from traveling to them. To read the resolution, click here.
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CLINICAL CASE: PERSISTENT DYSPNEA DESPITE MAXIMAL MEDICAL THERAPY IN COPD
This month's clinical case comes from Ohio State's Brian Mieczkowski, DO, and Michael Ezzie, MD.
The case involves "a 64-year-old woman with a history of smoking who presented with progressive shortness of breath with exertion. The patient smoked one to two packs of cigarettes per day for forty-two years and quit smoking one year ago. She had increasing dyspnea on exertion over the past few years that accelerated over the last year. She reported she could now only walk short distances before sitting down to catch her breath. Her family doctor started her on bronchodilators a few years ago. She had improvement at the time, but now feels very limited...."
Read the rest of the patient history, review the results of a physical examination, diagnostic studies and radiographs and other images to answer the first question: Based on our current understanding of gender differences in COPD, which of the following might be expected in this female patient compared to a male with an equivalent degree of airflow obstruction?
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GOING CRAZY TRYING TO REMEMBER PASSWORDS?
Web Editor Tom Stibolt has a solution for you in his Mobile Musings column on an easy and secure way to deal with the maddening virtual universe of multiple passwords. Regain you sanity by clicking here.
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