In the name of medicine

Article Abstract:

Many physicians are grappling with an appropriate name for the type of medicine practiced by most physicians in the US. The name alternative medicine has come to be accepted by most people as treatments that are not generally accepted by most physicians. However, the name for treatments that are accepted varies. The names include scientific, conventional, traditional, allopathic, and organized. However, many alternative treatments are based on scientific observations and alternative practitioners are becoming organized. Alternative treatments may eventually become the conventional treatment as time passes.

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Farewell to the "Shy-Drager syndrome."(Editorial)

Article Abstract:

"Multiple system atrophy" should replace "Shy-Drager syndrome" as the descriptor for patients with a degenerative disease of the autonomic nervous system. The two doctors whose names are currently used were the first to describe the syndrome, whose primary symptom was low blood pressure on standing, in 1962. However, patients may also experience degeneration of other areas of the central nervous system, which led to a complex and unwieldy subclassification system. In general, the current trend in nomenclature is to be as descriptive as possible. Hence, current consensus agrees on multiple system atrophy.

Editorial, Causes of, Nervous system diseases, Hypotension, Orthostatic, Orthostatic hypotension

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Dichotomous disservice?

Article Abstract:

Many physicians create a dichotomy of a physiological process that is actually continuous. An example of this habit of dichotomizing occurs when labeling patients as obese or non-obese. Physicians often describe a heart attack as Q wave or non-Q wave, which describes the appearance of the heart attack on an electrocardiogram. However, the damage to heart muscle that occurs during a heart attack varies greatly, from a small amount to large amounts. Thus it is misleading to dichotomize heart attacks as well as many other diseases and physiological processes.

Heart attack, Pleural effusions, Pleural effusion

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