Thromboembolic disease and pregnancy: are all women equal?

Article Abstract:

There appears to be enough evidence to support limited use of anti-clotting therapy in pregnant women with a history of clotting diseases but many questions remain about precise medication and additional risk factors. A recent study has identified a genetic risk factor for clotting episodes among pregnant women. Heparin appears to be the treatment of choice for pregnant women at risk for clotting episodes but few studies have been performed to identify the precise drug amounts and the most appropriate treatment timing. Even though many complications during pregnancy are associated with clotting, the condition is rare.

Health aspects, Editorial, Drug therapy, Anticoagulants (Medicine), Anticoagulants, Pregnant women, Thrombophlebitis

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Changing Times: Reflections on a Professional Lifetime

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The author pays homage to Dr. Paul Bruce Beeson as a way of introducing the thoughts and memories of the man who became the professor and chair of Medicine at both Emory University and Yale University, ultimately becoming Nuffield Professor of Medicine at Oxford University. Dr. Beeson's legacy, he states, is a list of former students who comprise a virtual Who's Who of 20th century medicine, with emphasis on the relationship between physician and patient and medicine's social obligations. Beeson was a founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Social aspects, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Appreciation, Beeson, Paul Bruce

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Doctoring to the Music of Time

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The author discusses perception of time and its effects on patients sense of health and medicine. He looks at what he calls traditional time, which is the circular procession of seasons, planets, and stars, with no end point, no concept of salvation or damnation, but only a repeating cycle. This establishes a static, stable world where progress is an illusion. The idea of perfectibility of humans, which emerged during the renaissance, led to the idea of time as a straight line, something which could have an end which could be reached.

Psychological aspects, Time perception

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