Table of Contents

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Colonization and Infection in a Long-term Care Facility

• Suzanne F. Bradley,
• Margaret S. Terpenning,
• Mary A. Ramsey,
• Lidija T. Zarins,
• Karen A. Jorgensen,
• William S. Sottile,
• Dennis R. Schaberg,
• and Carol A. Kauffman

Protruding Atheromas in the Thoracic Aorta and Systemic Embolization

• Paul A. Tunick,
• John L. Perez,
• and Itzhak Kronzon

Predicting Death in Patients Hospitalized for Community-acquired Pneumonia

• Barry M. Farr,
• Andrew J. Sloman,
• and Michael J. Fisch

Natural History of the Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome

• Randall C. Culpepper,
• Ronald G. Williams,
• Philip J. Mease,
• Thomas D. Koepsell,
• and John M. Kobayashi

High Rate of Infectivity and Liver Disease in Blood Donors with Antibodies to Hepatitis C Virus

• Juan Ignacio Esteban,
• Juan Carlos López-Talavera,
• Juan Genescà,
• Pedro Madoz,
• Luis Viladomiu,
• Eduardo Muñiz,
• Carmen Martin-Vega,
• Manuel Rosell,
• Helena Allende,
• Xavier Vidal,
• Antonio González,
• Jose Manuel Hernández,
• Rafael Esteban,
• and Jaime Guardia

Pulse Oximetry Monitoring outside the Intensive Care Unit: Progress or Problem?

• David L. Bowton,
• Phillip E. Scuderi,
• Lynn Harris,
• and Edward F. Haponik

The Patient's Story: Integrating the Patient- and Physician-centered Approaches to Interviewing

• Robert C. Smith and
• Ruth B. Hoppe

Management of Septic Shock: Present and Future

• Joseph E. Parrillo

Medicare Payment Reform: What Are the Prospects for Internal Medicine?

• David J. Shulkin and
• John M. Eisenberg

Medicine, the Vanishing Sacred Elephant

• Phillip Cozzi

Postmenopausal Estrogen and Prevention Bias

• Elizabeth Barrett-Connor

The Pathogenesis of Sepsis

• Roger C. Bone

Withholding and Withdrawing Life-sustaining Therapy

Quality of Care: Do We Care?

• Robert H. Brook

Medical Landmarks USA: A Travel Guide to Historic Sites, Architectural Gems, Remarkable Museums and Libraries, and Other Places of Health-Related Interest

The Medical Interview: The Three-Function Approach

The Best of Medical Humor. A Collection of Articles, Essays, Poetry, and Letters Published in the Medical Literature

Improving Access to Affordable Health Care

Assertive Utilization Management for Nurses, Physicians and Hospital Administrators

Evolutionary Biology

Congenital Heart Disease in Adults First edition.

The Lung: Scientific Foundations

Dyspnea

AIDS and the Lung

Breast Cancer

The Toxicity of Anticancer Drugs