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Volume 176(2);  March 2002
Articles
This Month in wjm
Editor's pick
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 73.
PMCID: PMC1071663
This month in wjm
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 73.
PMCID: PMC1071695
Best Practice
Straight to the Point: Dyspepsia, peptic ulcer disease, and esophageal reflux disease
Mark D Schwartz
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 98–103.
PMCID: PMC1071675
Evidence-Based Case Reviews: Abdominal pain in children and the diagnosis of appendicitis
Carolyn A Paris and Eileen J Klein
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 104–107.
PMCID: PMC1071677
Evidence-Based Case Reviews: Palliative surgery for cancer pain
Laurence McCahill and Betty Ferrell
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 107–110.
PMCID: PMC1071678
Evidence-Based Case Reviews: Should all patients with diabetes mellitus be screened for hemochromatosis?
Paula Cifuentes Henderson, Patrick Dowling, and Rikio Ozaki
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 110–114.
PMCID: PMC1071679
Commentary: Diabetes and HFE mutations: cause or coincidence?
Linda E Pinsky, Giuseppina Imperatore, and Wylie Burke
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 114–115.
PMCID: PMC1071680
Topics in Review: Equipping primary care physicians for the digital age: The Internet, online education, handheld computers, and telemedicine
Thomas S Nesbitt, Anthony Jerant, and Thomas Balsbaugh
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 116–120.
PMCID: PMC1071681
Topics in Review: Death — whose decision? Physician-assisted dying and the terminally ill
Sharon I Fraser and James W Walters
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 120–123.
PMCID: PMC1071682
Culture and Medicine
Shaping America's health care professions: how the health sector will respond to “generation X”
Edward O'Neil
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 139–141.
PMCID: PMC1071692
Why the disease-based model of medicine fails our patients
Alexander R Green, J Emilio Carrillo, and Joseph R Betancourt
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 141–143.
PMCID: PMC1071693
Dialogue
Dialogue on End-of-Life Decision Making: The Robert Wendland case
Jon B Eisenberg and J Clark Kelso
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 124.
PMCID: PMC1071684
Dialogue on End-of-Life Decision Making: Legal implications of the Wendland case for end-of-life decision making
Jon B Eisenberg and J Clark Kelso
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 124–127.
PMCID: PMC1071696
Dialogue on End-of-Life Decision Making: The ethics of surrogate decision making
Ben A Rich
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 127–129.
PMCID: PMC1071685
Dialogue on End-of-Life Decision Making: What is a minimally conscious state?
Ronald E Cranford
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 129–130.
PMCID: PMC1071686
Genesis
Voice of Students: “The price of freedom is visible here”
Jena Berg
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 136–137.
PMCID: PMC1071689
Voice of Students: Are medical students ready for the digital age?
Este M Bailey-Geraghty
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 137–138.
PMCID: PMC1071690
Voice of Students: Trauma ICU: sutures, scalpels, and swears
John Lynch
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 138.
PMCID: PMC1071691
In the Public Eye
Beyond Our Borders: Are we there yet? The road to a malaria vaccine
N Regina Rabinovich
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 82–84.
PMCID: PMC1071669
Med.Pix
Common complications of body piercing
Julius Metts
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 85–86.
PMCID: PMC1071670
Medicine Cabinet
Medications for smoking cessation
Robin L Corelli and Karen Suchanek Hudmon
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 131–135.
PMCID: PMC1071687
Op-Ed
Cloning human embryos: Decisions must not be made by private corporations behind closed doors
Arthur L Caplan and Glenn McGee
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 78–79.
PMCID: PMC1071666
Surf's up! Protecting the privacy of health information on the Internet: We need new privacy laws and better encryption of information
Mark A Graber
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 79–81.
PMCID: PMC1071667
Original Research
Breast cancer characteristics of Vietnamese women in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area
Scarlett S Lin, John C Phan, and Albert Y Lin
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 87–91.
PMCID: PMC1071671
Commentary: Breast cancer in Asian women
Marion M Lee
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 91–92.
PMCID: PMC1071672
Helicobacter pylori eradication in dyspeptic primary care patients: a randomized controlled trial of a pharmacy intervention
Victor J Stevens, Robert J Shneidman, Richard E Johnson, Myde Boles, Paul E Steele, and Nancy L Lee
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 92–96.
PMCID: PMC1071673
Commentary: Patient education for H pylori: who benefits?
Katherine Yang and B Joseph Guglielmo
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 97.
PMCID: PMC1071674
Other Content
Any Questions? Any Answers?
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 81.
PMCID: PMC1071668
wjm's Hanging Committee
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 103.
PMCID: PMC1071676
Death Benefits
Jack Coulehan
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 123.
PMCID: PMC1071683
The Doctor's Wife
Jack Coulehan
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 135.
PMCID: PMC1071688
Point-Counterpoint
Should Physicians Support the Medical Use of Marijuana?: Yes: It can be effective when all else fails
William S Eidelman
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 76.
PMCID: PMC1071664
Should Physicians Support the Medical Use of Marijuana?: No: Evidence of its safety and efficacy is weak
Eric A Voth
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 77.
PMCID: PMC1071665
Visual Commentary
Malaria
David Heiden
West J Med. 2002 March; 176(2): 144.
PMCID: PMC1071694
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