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Volume 172(6);  June 2000
Articles
This Month in wjm
This month in wjm
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 353.
PMCID: PMC1070905
Editor's Pick
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 353.
PMCID: PMC1070944
Best Practice
Topic in Review: Health care problems of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients
Rita Lee
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 403–408.
PMCID: PMC1070935
Clinical Evidence: Infectious disease: diarrhea
Guy de Bruyn
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 409–412.
PMCID: PMC1070937
Culture and Medicine
Medical Myths: Measuring white blood cells in the stools is useful in the management of acute diarrhea
Mel E Herbert
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 414.
PMCID: PMC1070939
Medical Myths: Vietnamese family relationships: A lesson in cross-cultural care
Geri-Ann Galanti
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 415–416.
PMCID: PMC1070940
Curbside Consult
At what age should a child begin regular continuous exercise at moderate or high intensity?
Nicola Maffulli
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 413.
PMCID: PMC1070938
In the Public Eye
News and Features: Unsupervised nurses may soon give anesthetics
Deborah Josefson
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 360–361.
PMCID: PMC1070910
News and Features: George W Bush proposes insurance help for the poor
Fred B Charatan
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 361.
PMCID: PMC1070911
News and Features: FDA committee recommends approval for Viagra rival
Scott Gottlieb
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 361.
PMCID: PMC1070945
News and Features: Bypass grafts protect diabetic patients better than angioplasty
Scott Gottlieb
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 362.
PMCID: PMC1070912
Medicine and Money: The high price of aging
Fred B Charatan
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 363–364.
PMCID: PMC1070913
Journal Digest
Epidemiology of medical error
Saul N Weingart, Ross McL Wilson, Robert W Gibberd, and Bernadette Harrison
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 390–393.
PMCID: PMC1070928
Human error: models and management
James Reason
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 393–396.
PMCID: PMC1070929
Sport medicine and the ethics of boxing
Suzanne Leclerc and Christopher D Herrera
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 396–398.
PMCID: PMC1070930
Acute mountain sickness: the “poison of the pass”
Damian M Bailey
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 399–400.
PMCID: PMC1070931
Mail
Better clinical management of anorexia nervosa in teens
Salvador Vale
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 365.
PMCID: PMC1070915
Author's response
Philip S Mehler
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 365.
PMCID: PMC1070949
Med.Pix
Itchy bumps on the back
Richard P Usatine
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 366–367.
PMCID: PMC1070916
Op-Ed
Let's talk about error
James L Reinertsen
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 356–357.
PMCID: PMC1070906
Accreditation's role in reducing medical errors
Dennis S O'Leary
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 357–358.
PMCID: PMC1070907
Medical error: the second victim
Albert W Wu
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 358–359.
PMCID: PMC1070908
Original Research
Prevalence of HIV infection, sexually transmitted diseases, and hepatitis and related risk behavior in young women living in low-income neighborhoods of northern California
Juan D Ruiz, Fred Molitor, Willi McFarland, Jeffrey Klausner, George Lemp, Kimberly Page-Shafer, Arti Parikh-Patel, Scott Morrow, and Richard K Sun
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 368–373.
PMCID: PMC1070918
Poor young women need information and empowerment
Todd May
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 373–374.
PMCID: PMC1070919
Family reports of pain in dying hospitalized patients: a structured telephone survey
Susan W Tolle, Virginia P Tilden, Susan E Hickman, and Anne G Rosenfeld
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 374–377.
PMCID: PMC1070920
Commentary: Measuring quality of care at the end of life: who? when? where? and how?
Richard W Meyer
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 377–378.
PMCID: PMC1070921
Use of preventive health behaviors by lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women: questionnaire survey
Audrey S Koh
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 379–384.
PMCID: PMC1070923
Funding for more research is urgently needed
Allison Diamant
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 384–385.
PMCID: PMC1070924
Survey of directors of emergency departments in California on overcrowding
John R Richards, Misty L Navarro, and Robert W Derlet
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 385–388.
PMCID: PMC1070925
Give emergency medicine true departmental control
A Antoine Kazzi
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 388–389.
PMCID: PMC1070926
Other Content
Capsule: Festive weight gain
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 359.
PMCID: PMC1070909
Any Questions? Any Answers?
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 362.
PMCID: PMC1070946
A book to make you think
David Woods
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 364.
PMCID: PMC1070914
How to submit your medical images for publication in Med.Pix: Do you have images (slides, photos, etc.) of compelling visual cases in clinical medicine?
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 367.
PMCID: PMC1070917
Capsule: Teen passengers are a hazard to the driver
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 367.
PMCID: PMC1070947
Netphiles: http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/
Helen Morant
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 378.
PMCID: PMC1070922
Practice point: Keep looking for a reason
Michael Powell
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 389.
PMCID: PMC1070927
A book to make you think
Jeanette Cayley
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 400.
PMCID: PMC1070932
Capsule: Bottled water contains more bugs
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 402.
PMCID: PMC1070934
The Challenge of Preventive Medicine in the Year 2000
K Annan
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 408.
PMCID: PMC1070936
Capsule: High fat diet may reduce seizure rate
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 413.
PMCID: PMC1070948
Toolbox
How to talk about sex with patients who are not heterosexual
Rita Lee
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 401–402.
PMCID: PMC1070933
Visual Commentary
Medicine for what ails you
Douglas S Diekema
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 424.
PMCID: PMC1070943
West of the Rockies
Letter from Northern California: Mission to Mindanao
Robert M Dy
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 417–418.
PMCID: PMC1070941
Speaker's Corner: Sensing a purpose
Mark Carroll
West J Med. 2000 June; 172(6): 419.
PMCID: PMC1070942
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