- "I discovered a different world in palliative care, a world that -- I think I can say -- embodies co-creation," writes Kathryn B. Kirkland, MD, in JAMA about her life as a physician ~ Finding Joy in Practice
- In the New England Journal of Medicine, Kathy L. Hudson, PhD, and Karen Pollitz, MPP, discuss how the laws protecting genetic privacy may be changing ~ Undermining Genetic Privacy? Employee Wellness Programs and the Law
- Emergency department physicians are expressing a growing interest in palliative care, Melissa Bailey writes in Kaiser Health News ~ Influx Of Elderly Patients Forces ER To Practice Comfort Care
- Shari Erickson, MPH, and colleagues explore in Annals of Internal Medicine how to reduce burdensome admin tasks ~ Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care: A Position Paper of the American College of Physicians
- In a recent analysis, the CDC reported that Alzheimer's disease deaths in the U.S. have increased substantially since 1999, Ariana Eunjung Cha writes in The Washington Post ~ U.S. death rate from Alzheimer's rose dramatically over 15 years. Why?
- Patients have significantly lower mortality when the Joint Commission is conducting a survey of the hospital, Michael L. Barnett, MD, and colleagues report in JAMA Internal Medicine ~ Patient Mortality During Unannounced Accreditation Surveys at US Hospital
- "The cheekbone led to a jaw, portions of a skull and eventually collar bones, shoulder blades, ribs and -- perhaps most important -- the most complete spinal column of any early human relative ever found," Peter Holley writes in The Washington Post ~ How a 3.3 million-year-old toddler offers researchers a window into human evolution
Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what's going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman's Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.