Wearing surgical face mask has no significant impact on auscultation assessment.

Objective: During the COVID-19 pandemic, universal mask-wearing became one of the main public health interventions. Because of this, most physical examinations, including lung auscultation, were done while patients were wearing surgical face masks. The aim of this study was to investigate whether mask wearing has an impact on pulmonologist assessment during auscultation of the lungs.

[What General/Family Medicine Practitioner should Know about Viral Hepatitis].

Viral hepatitis is a systemic disease that predominantly affects the liver. The most common causes of viral hepatitis are fi ve hepatotropic viruses A, B, C, D and E; according to duration, it can be acute or chronic. Although clinical course of all viral hepatitides is similar, particular problem is predisposition of hepatitis B and hepatitis C to cause chronic forms of illness with severe outcome such as cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma and liver failure.