Annals of Internal Medicine Podcast

The Israeli field hospital experience in Haiti; interview with Ofer Merin, MD, Commander in Chief of the Israel Defense Forces Reserve Field Hospital, Deputy Director General of Shaarei Tzedek Hospital, Lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem; plus a summary of all articles in the issue.

HbA1c as a diagnostic test and measure of diabetes control; interview with William H. Herman, MD, MPH, of the University of Michigan, and Robert M. Cohen, MD, of the University of Cincinnati; plus a summary of all articles in the issue.

Managing opioid misuse with treatment agreements and urine drug testing; interview with Barbara Turner, MD, MSED, of the University of Pennsylvania; plus a summary of all the articles in the issue.

Sample treatment agreement for prescription opioids from Utah Clinical Guidelines on Prescribing Opioids for Treatment of Pain available at http://health.utah.gov/prescription/guidelines.html

Preventing osteoporosis in men with prostate cancer; excerpts from a conference on Reinventing Primary Care; plus a summary of all the issue's articles.

Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in patients with anemia of chronic kidney disease; interview with Daniel Weiner, MD, MS, of Tufts Medical School. Plus a summary of all the issue's articles.

The history of the mammography screening controversy and the experience of breast cancer in America; interview with Robert Aronowitz, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania. Plus a summary of all the issue's articles.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010; interview with Robert Doherty of the American College of Physicians; plus a summary of all the articles in the issue.

Concierge Medicine, by Michael Stillman, M.D.; Through a Glass Darkly by Tumi Johnson, M.D.; plus a summary of all the articles in the issue.

Screening young athletes for heart disease; interview with Barry Maron, MD, of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation; plus a summary of all articles in the issue.

Cigar and pipe smoking and lung function; interview with Stanton Glantz, PhD, of the University of California San Francisco; plus a summary of all the articles in the issue.

Treatment of complex regional pain syndrome; interview with Dr. Robert J. Schwartzman of Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia; plus a summary of all the articles in the issue.

Opioids and overdose; interview with A. Thomas McLellan, PhD, Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy; plus a summary of all the articles in the issue.

2010 adult immunization guidelines; interview with Gregory Poland, MD, of the Mayo Clinic; "Why Geriatrics?" by Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, of the University of California San Francisco; plus a summary of all the articles in the issue.

[PDF] Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule, 2010