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onsdag, juni 20, 2012

NEJM 200th Anniversary Update
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This monthly update is designed to keep you informed about anniversary content and events. We’ll highlight interesting items and let you know what is coming soon. Features currently on the 200th anniversary website include:
Dialogues in Medicine: Physicians and Patients on 200 Years of Progress
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DIALOGUES IN MEDICINE: PHYSICIANS AND PATIENTS ON 200 YEARS OF PROGRESS
On Friday, June 22, please join the NEJM community in a live webcast of a full-day symposium that explores how medical research and practice has evolved to improve people’s lives over the past two centuries. An all-star cast will cover four topics —HIV/AIDS, maternal and fetal health, breast cancer, and cardiac disease — through moderated, small-panel discussions. Speakers include experts in the field discussing how the face of the disease has changed over 200 years, health professionals whose endeavors have had an impact on the disease and — most important — patients whose personal stories will illustrate the suffering illness causes, the courage needed to face it, and how advances in medical knowledge can change lives. This live event will be simulcast from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern time. Visit the 200th anniversary site for more information, including a list of panelists and how to view the event.
Anniversary Articles
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ANNIVERSARY ARTICLES
The latest review in our 200th anniversary series, “Two Hundred Years of Cancer Research,” comes from Drs. Vincent DeVita and Steven Rosenberg. In an overview of the last two centuries of progress and understanding in the field of oncology, they demonstrate the value of patience and investment in research. Previous reviews include surgery, pediatrics, asthma, infectious disease, and coronary artery disease. Look for a new review in neurology and psychiatry in July, and a new Perspective article in the upcoming issue, “The Burden of Disease and the Changing Task of Medicine.” Find all of the anniversary articles on the 200th site. We’ll publish a new one every other week.
SHARE YOUR STORY
What advice would you give to an aspiring doctor today? Whether you’re a young resident or you’ve been practicing for 50 years, you may have words of wisdom to provide for those who have just graduated from medical school, or even those who plan to start soon. Read the stories your peers have shared, and tell us about the lessons you’ve learned.
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Vote and Explore the 1980s
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VOTE AND EXPLORE THE 1980s
In the 1980s, we witnessed incredible medical progress through the pages of NEJM. In 1980, we read about the first implantable cardiac defibrillator, and in 1982, the first artificial heart. Radical mastectomy was the treatment of choice for breast cancer until a 1981 article found no survival difference for those who underwent lumpectomy instead. In 1988, we learned that aspirin prevents heart attacks. Conversely, in 1981, the initial cases of AIDS were reported, beginning our quest for understanding and treatment for this new disease. Which do you think is the most important? Vote now! And explore other milestones in the ’80s and over the last 200 years on the interactive timeline.
IMAGES PHYSICIANS SHOULD KNOW
An 86-year-old man was hospitalized for repeated episodes of septic shock due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia; he ultimately died of pseudomonal sepsis and pneumonia. In 1948, the patient had pulmonary tuberculosis and underwent extrapleural pneumonolysis (plombage) with polymethyl methacrylate (acrylic or Lucite) balls. Explore this classic Image in Clinical Medicine and many more on the Images Physicians Should Know page on our 200th anniversary site.
Images Physicians Should Know
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Sincerely,
Thomas J. Easley
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The New England Journal of Medicine
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