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Volume 175(6);  December 2001
Articles
This Month in wjm
Editor's pick
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 361.
PMCID: PMC1275954
This month in wjm
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 361.
PMCID: PMC1275955
Best Practice
Topic in Review: An approach to critically ill patients
Robert Rodriguez and H Gene Hern, Jr
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 392–395.
PMCID: PMC1275972
Straight to the Point: Hyperlipidemia: Part 2. Pharmacologic management
Nate Link and Michael Tanner
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 396–401.
PMCID: PMC1275973
Evidence-Based Case Reviews: Acute otitis media
Sandi Pirozzo and Chris Del Mar
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 402–407.
PMCID: PMC1275975
Evidence-Based Case Reviews: Diagnosis and treatment of opiate-resistant pain in advanced AIDS
Wayne C McCormick and Rebecca L Schreiner
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 408–411.
PMCID: PMC1275976
Culture and Medicine
Genomic medicine: the sorcerer's new broom?: The limitations of the human genome project
Ian Coulter
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 424–426.
PMCID: PMC1275983
Looking Back: “The insidious foe”—sewer gas
James Whorton
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 427–428.
PMCID: PMC1275984
Gene Scene
Why should primary care physicians know about the genetics of dementia?
Linda E Pinsky, Wylie Burke, and Thomas D Bird
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 412–416.
PMCID: PMC1275977
Genesis
Voice of Students: Tragedy and the healing response
Shahin Chandrasoma
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 420–421.
PMCID: PMC1275979
Voice of Students: Health as a consumer product
Shahin Chandrasoma
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 421–422.
PMCID: PMC1275980
Commentary: Pharmaceutical companies must make decisions based on profit
Lawrence Perkins
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 422–423.
PMCID: PMC1275981
Genesis: suggestions, submissions
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 423.
PMCID: PMC1275982
In the Public Eye
Media Watch: A heartbreaking story that misses the point
Barbara Sibbald
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 370–371.
PMCID: PMC1275960
Beyond Our Borders: Injury in the developing world
Charles Mock
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 372–374.
PMCID: PMC1275961
Mail
Many people are taking insulin-like growth factor-I without even knowing it
Joseph Mercola and Cory Mermer
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 378–379.
PMCID: PMC1275964
More on patients' preferences in treating atrial fibrillation
Alan Montgomery, Tom Fahey, Joanne Protheroe, and Tim J Peters
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 379.
PMCID: PMC1275965
Genetic catastrophe: learn, then lay them to rest
David B Hill
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 379.
PMCID: PMC1275966
Med.Pix
An adolescent boy with blistered feet
Robert E Morris
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 375–376.
PMCID: PMC1275962
Op-Ed
Demystifying critical care: A new series provides a succinct, modern approach aimed at primary care physicians
Robert Rodriguez
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 366–367.
PMCID: PMC1275958
The changing scope of colorectal cancer
C Richard Boland and Thomas Savides
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 367–369.
PMCID: PMC1275959
Original Research
Local television news coverage of traumatic deaths and injuries
David L McArthur, Daniel Magaña, Corinne Peek-Asa, and Jess F Kraus
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 380–384.
PMCID: PMC1275967
Commentary: News stories need human drama, not dry data
Seán Collins
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 384.
PMCID: PMC1275968
Information superhighway or billboards by the roadside? An analysis of hospital web sites
David S Zingmond, Yee Wei Lim, Susan L Ettner, and David M Carlisle
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 385–391.
PMCID: PMC1275969
Commentary: “With just one click”: online health information is abundant, but can it be trusted?
Gretchen K Berland
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 391.
PMCID: PMC1275970
Other Content
Three incidents
Sundaram V Ramanan
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 377.
PMCID: PMC1275963
Two views of the same data
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 391.
PMCID: PMC1275971
Any Questions? Any Answers?
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 401.
PMCID: PMC1275974
Indian summer
Richard Bronson
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 431.
PMCID: PMC1275987
Point-Counterpoint
Have Drug Companies Hyped Social Anxiety Disorder to Increase Sales?: Yes: Marketing hinders discovery of long-term solutions
David Healy
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 364.
PMCID: PMC1275956
Have Drug Companies Hyped Social Anxiety Disorder to Increase Sales?: No: Efforts to relieve human suffering deserve rewards
David V Sheehan
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 365.
PMCID: PMC1275957
Toolbox
Unconventional approaches to nutritional medicine
Andrew Vickers and Catherine Zollman
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 417–419.
PMCID: PMC1275978
Visual Commentary
Survival
Niki Borofsky
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 432.
PMCID: PMC1275988
West of the Rockies
Thoughts on a new health care paradigm
Terence M Davidson
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 429–430.
PMCID: PMC1275985
Commentary: The sky is not falling
Samuel A Skootsky
West J Med. 2001 December; 175(6): 430–431.
PMCID: PMC1275986
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