Painful, swollen, oozing right great toe.

We initially suspected septic arthritis or osteomyelitis in this patient. Further investigation proved it was neither.

Differences in physician communication when patients ask versus tell about religion/spirituality: a pilot study.

Background And Objectives: Research suggests that physicians should pursue spiritual issues and that patients desire to discuss religion/spirituality (R/S) in medical encounters. This study explored the differences in physician communication in response to patient inquiry or disclosure of R/S and hypothesizes that physician communication will differ when patients disclose R/S as contrasted to inquire about R/S.

Methods: Family physicians and family medicine resident physicians were recruited from a family medicine department at a community hospital (n=27).

The internalization of yeast Ste6p follows an ordered series of events involving phosphorylation, ubiquitination, recognition and endocytosis.

A general pathway for the internalization of plasma membrane proteins that involves phosphorylation, ubiquitination, recognition and endocytosis has recently emerged from multiple studies in yeast. We refer to this series of events as the PURE pathway. Here we investigate whether the yeast a-factor transporter Ste6p, an ATP-binding cassette protein, utilizes the PURE pathway.