Empathy in Internal Medicine Residents at Community-based Hospitals: A Cross-sectional Study.

Introduction: Many research reports revealed declining empathy in medical schools that continues in postgraduate years of training.

Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the self-reported empathy levels of internal medicine (IM) residents in 3 community-based teaching hospitals.

Methods: The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, Health Professionals version, is an online, self-administered, questionnaire that was offered to 129 current and incoming residents at 1 osteopathic and 2 allopathic, IM training programs in Flint, Michigan.

Point-of-Care, Ultraportable Echocardiography Predicts Diuretic Response in Patients Admitted with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.

Background: Routine management of patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) requires careful attentiveness to fluid status and diuretic treatment efficacy. New advances in ultrasound have made ultraportable echocardiography (UE) available to physicians for point-of-care use. The purpose of this study is to explore physiologic measures of intravascular fluid volume derived from UE and explore predictors of diuretic response in ADHF.

[Tobacco and head and neck tumors].

Poland is the country in which the steady increase of falling ill and deaths of head and neck tumours has been observed in last 30 years. Larynx tumour occurs the most often among smoking people (inhaling the tobacco smoke) and the ones drinking alcohol habitually. As far as non-smokers and abstinent are concerned this illness is a very rare phenomenon.

Growth hormone secretion in children after therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

In eight children, after the termination of therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) the secretion of growth hormone (GH) was determined by the stimulation test with clonidine. The children were treated in the period from 1983 till 1988 and they were administered chemotherapy, intrathecal methotrexate therapy and cranial irradiation 60CO in a dose of 1800 rads. In one case a complete GH deficiency was found, in three cases there was a partial deficiency and in the remaining cases the secretion was regular.