An Ominous Wave
This case report describes a man in his 40s with evidence of malignant J wave syndrome on electrocardiography.
Medical Knowledge
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations for Neonatal Perioperative Care
Importance Neonates requiring surgery are often cared for in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Despite a breadth of surgical pathology, neonates share many perioperative priorities that allow for the development of unit-wide evidence-based Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) recommendations. Observations The guideline…
Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis
This case report describes a woman in her 70s presenting with primary cutaneous cryptococcosis.
Caring for Patients With Prolonged Symptoms and Concerns About Lyme Disease
This module briefly touches on the etiology and symptoms of early/localized and disseminated Lyme disease, but the key focus is to help physicians navigate interactions with patients who have prolonged and unexplained symptoms and concerns about Lyme disease. This includes…
Why MLP Legal Care Should Be Financed as Health Care
Medical-legal partnership (MLP) integrates the unique expertise of lawyers into collaborative clinical environments. MLP teams meet the needs of individual patients while also detecting structural problems at the root of health inequities and advancing solutions at the institutional, community, and…
What Are Epidemiological Foundations for Integrating Legal Services Into Health Care Settings?
Medical-legal partnerships vary widely in how they are structured and use data to inform service delivery. Epidemiological data on certain chronic conditions’ prevalence, the incidence of potentially preventable morbidity, and health-harming legal factors also influence approaches to care. This article…
How Should MLP Clinicians and Attorneys Help Veterans Secure Disability Benefits When Health Records Documentation is Insufficient?
This case commentary considers unique features of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) in the Veterans Health Administration that may potentially mediate and minimize ethical tensions that may arise in MLP collaborations involving diagnosing and documenting disability.
Acute Bilateral Periorbital Edema in a Psychiatric Patient
An older patient with history of alcohol use disorder was admitted for altered mental status and received valproic acid and olanzapine from the psychiatric service. On hospital day 2, the patient acutely developed bilateral periorbital edema. What would you do…
Ethics Talk: What Do MLPs Offer Undocumented Patients?
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about how medical-legal partnerships can help undocumented patient-clients. The featured guest is Lynette Martins, a legal and bioethics scholar. The target…
Advancing Health Policy and Outcomes for People With Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities – A Community-Led Agenda
Importance At least 10 million people in the United States have an intellectual and/or developmental disability (IDD). People with IDD experience considerably higher rates of poor overall health, chronic conditions including diabetes, mental health challenges, maternal mortality, and preventable deaths. This…
