The relationship between Empathy and listening styles is complex: implications for doctors in training.

Background: Effective communication is the key to a successful relationship between doctors and their patients. Empathy facilitates effective communication, but physicians vary in their ability to empathize with patients. Listening styles are a potential source of this difference.

Mononeuropathy multiplex as an uncommon presentation of intravascular lymphoma: A case report.

Key Clinical Message: Although intravascular lymphoma rarely presents with peripheral neuropathy, learning about this presentation can lead to timely diagnosis and improved prognosis in patients with intravascular lymphoma.

Abstract: A 64-year-old man presented with asymmetric paresthesia and subsequent weakness of his feet and a 10 kg weight loss over 40 days. Electrodiagnostic studies revealed distal axonal sensory-motor polyneuropathy with ongoing axonal loss.

Narcolepsy following COVID-19: A case report and review of potential mechanisms.

Key Clinical Message: The immune activation in COVID-19 may trigger narcolepsy in vulnerable patients. We suggest clinicians carefully evaluate patients with post-COVID fatigue and hypersomnia for primary sleep disorders, specifically narcolepsy.

Abstract: The patient is a 33-year-old Iranian woman without a significant past medical history with the full range of narcolepsy symptoms that started within 2 weeks after her recovery from COVID-19.

The Effects of an Empathic Communication Workshop on Internal Medicine Residents' Self-Perceived Empathy and Their Patients' Perception of Physician's Empathy: A Single-Group Experimental Study.

Empathetic communication improves the physician-patient relationship and enhances patient and physician satisfaction. This study aims to evaluate the impact of empathic communication skills training on physicians' self-perceived performance and patient satisfaction regarding the empathetic quality of their relationship with their physicians. In this single-group before-after experimental study, we recruited 50 internal medicine residents at a large teaching hospital.

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in acute viral respiratory tract infections: An updated systematic review.

In this systematic review, we aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in treating respiratory tract infections in adults and children. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane, and Embase databases were searched. A total of 34 randomized clinical trials were included in this systematic review.

Efficacy and safety of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: A comprehensive evidence synthesis of clinical, animal, and in vitro studies.

The world is facing a pandemic of COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus which is now called SARS-CoV-2. Current treatment recommendations for the infection are mainly repurposed drugs based on experience with other clinically similar conditions and are not backed by direct evidence. Chloroquine (CQ) and its derivative Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) are among the candidates.

Medicinal plants in the adjunctive treatment of patients with type-1 diabetes: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials.

Propose: This study aims to systematically review the randomized controlled trials that address the effectiveness and safety of herbal medicine in patients with type 1 diabetes.

Methods: The Cochrane Library (latest issue); MEDLINE (until recent); EMBASE (until recent); AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine Database) (until recent); and CINHAL (until recent) were searched electronically for the identification of trials until October 2019. Articles were initially screened based on title and abstract and then by full text by two independent authors.

Best Practice for Prolonged Fever in Primary Care Setting: Close Follow-Up or Empiric Antibiotic Therapy?

The management of prolonged fever in low-socioeconomic-status areas by primary care providers such as general practitioners is challenging. Given the endemic nature of many infectious diseases, physicians typically start empirical antibiotic therapy following a limited diagnostic workup including serologic examinations. Herein, we report the case of a young male patient with prolonged fever and arthralgia initially diagnosed with and treated for brucellosis but with a confirmed diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus on follow-up.

An unusual occurrence of Kleine-Levin syndrome in a man with refractory immune thrombocytopenic purpura: a case report.

Introduction: Kleine-Levin syndrome is an extremely rare neurological entity characterized by recurrent episodes of hypersomnia which are sometimes associated with compulsive hyperphagia and behavioral changes. Autoimmunity has recently been proposed as a factor contributing to its pathogenesis. Immune thrombocytopenic purpura is a relatively common autoimmune disease showing a lot of complexity and uncertainty regarding its treatment regimens and its refractory nature in some cases.