Gastroenterology Experts & Viewpoints

Physicians Are Talking About: A Death Foretold Would you operate on a patient who experienced a premonition of death? Is this a contraindication surgery? Medscape Physician Connect members discuss whether to ignore or heed premonitions.
Commentary, November 2009
How Should I Manage Patients With Sickle Cell Anemia and Hepatitis C? Patients with sickle cell anemia who received blood transfusions before 1992 are at increased risk of developing chronic hepatitis C. Find out the treatment options for these patients.
Ask the Expert, October 2009
Physicians Are Talking About: Is It Worth Getting the H1N1 Vaccine? Are you getting vaccinated against the swine flu? Medscape Physician Connect members debate their reasons for and reservations against receiving the vaccine.
Commentary, October 2009
Physicians Are Talking About: How to Deliver Bad News How can doctors improve on the way that they deliver bad news?
Commentary, October 2009
Physicians Are Talking About: Money, the Least of What Physicians Want Should physicians have the discretion to withhold treatment if patients have not paid their medical bills?
Commentary, October 2009
Prostate Cancer Risk in Patients Undergoing Herniorrhaphy Commentary on a study on the value of prostate cancer screening in patients considering inguinal herniorrhaphy, published September 2009 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Viewpoint, October 2009
A New Approach to Managing Patients With Suspected Choledocholithiasis Commentary on a study on endoscopic ultrasonography vs endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for suspected choledocholithiasis, published September 2009 in the British Journal of Surgery.
Viewpoint, October 2009
Addition of FDG PET to the Work-up for Surgical Resection of Colorectal Liver Metastases Commentary on a study on whether the addition of FDG PET to the work-up for surgical resection of liver metastases can reduce futile laparotomies.
Viewpoint, October 2009
Evaluating the Patient With Abnormal Liver Tests Don't miss this practical advice for evaluating patients presenting with signs and symptoms of a liver disorder.
Commentary, October 2009
Physicians Are Talking About: Checking Into Being a Hotel Doctor As traditional forms of medical practice become increasingly unmanageable, physicians are beginning to look for alternative options such as hotel doctoring.
Commentary, October 2009
Do Leukocyte-Depleted Transfusions Affect Survival in Patients With Cancer? Commentary on a study on whether removing leukocytes from blood transfusions would improve survival in patients with cancer, published July 2009 in The British Journal of Surgery.
Viewpoint, October 2009
Proposed Healthcare Reform: No Fair Shake for Doctors Elements of proposed healthcare are not fair to doctors, and proposed funding unfairly taxes doctors, according to Gregory A. Hood, MD, Governor-elect of the ACP, Kentucky chapter.
Commentary, October 2009
How to Ace Your Deposition to Help Win Your Malpractice Trial The way you act at your deposition, the way you prepare, and how you behave can play a major role in whether you win or lose your malpractice case.
Expert Column, October 2009
Is Computed Tomography Colonography Cost-Effective for Screening Colon Cancer and Aortic Aneurysm in the Medicare Population? Commentary on a study on the cost-effectiveness of CT colonography compared with optical colonoscopy for the detection of colorectal cancer in the Medicare population.
Viewpoint, October 2009
Proton-Pump Inhibitors and Clopidogrel: Back to the Future? Recommendations to avoid proton-pump inhibitors in patients on antiplatelet therapy may have gone too far. Find out why.
Viewpoint, October 2009
The Incidence of Bowel Obstruction Following Appendectomy Commentary on a study on the frequency of small bowel obstruction after appendectomy, published July 2009 in the Annals of Surgery.
Viewpoint, October 2009
Proton-Pump Inhibitors and Clopidogrel -- Friends or Foes? Is the interaction between proton-pump inhibitors and clopidogrel fact or fiction? David A. Johnson, MD, shares the latest evidence in this video blog.
Commentary, September 2009
How Should I Manage the Pregnant HBeAg-Positive Woman? New 2009 guidelines address the management of the HBeAg-positive pregnancy.
Ask the Expert, September 2009
Is Surgical Glove Perforation a Risk Factor for Wound Infection? Commentary on a study on whether surgical glove perforations increase the risk of surgical site infections, published June 2009 in the Archives of Surgery.
Viewpoint, September 2009
How Should We Manage Drug Interactions Between Clopidogrel and Proton-Pump Inhibitors? Patients taking clopidogrel often receive PPIs prophylactically to reduce GI bleeding risk. Recent evidence of a drug interaction suggests that this coadministration may not be safe for all patients.
Ask the Expert, September 2009

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Genetic Predictors of Treatment-Induced Viral Clearance in Hepatitis C Drs. Dermot McGovern and Gil Melmed comment on a study published in Nature on the ability of an IL-28B polymorphism to predict sustained viral response to hepatitis C treatment.
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