{"title":"Address of the Outgoing President: Evolution.","authors":"Henry Eli Jacobs","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35577,"journal":{"name":"Connecticut Medicine","volume":"80 10","pages":"611-612"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36219438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meeta Bhalla, Dora Dominguez-Diaz, Robert Brown, Forugh Homayounrooz
{"title":"Culturosity: Fostering Cultural Awareness Among Faculty and Residents in a Community Teaching Hospital.","authors":"Meeta Bhalla, Dora Dominguez-Diaz, Robert Brown, Forugh Homayounrooz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cultural awareness is the first step towards building cultural competence. 'he goal of our study was to evaluate the effect of a cultural awareness intervention among faculty and resi- dents in three residency programs at St. Vincent's Medical Center (SVMC). We conducted a pro- spective interventional quality improvement (Qj) project to study three areas pertaining to cultural awareness -knowledge, attitude, andenvironment, by means of a structured questionnaire adminis- tered at baseline and after intervention. 'The in- tervention consisted of participation in carefully designed bimonthly cultural awareness sessions focusing on one country or region at a time and included an introduction to language, food, music, economics, etc. 'here was a statistically significant difference in pre- and post-intervention responses to the questions pertaining to knowledge about dif- ferent cultures. The intervention was successful in decreasing the knowledge gap significantly and, in the process, also improved the participants' per- ception of the overall cultural experience in the program and hospital.</p>","PeriodicalId":35577,"journal":{"name":"Connecticut Medicine","volume":"80 10","pages":"585-588"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36219431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paraneoplastic Demyelinating Neuropathy, a Multifactorial Disease and Approach to Management.","authors":"Abigael Luke, James Vredenburgh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a 53-year-old male with demyelinating polyneuropathy due to a paraneo- plastic syndrome from lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma. This syndrome is an immune-mediated event via plasma cell dyscrasia. The patient suffered near quadriplegia requiring prolonged ventilation. He was treatedwith systemic therapyforhis malignancy, as well as immunemodulating therapy with a recovery near his baseline. We propose it is important to not only control malignant plasma cell dyscrasia, but also target peripheral antibodies carrying out the attack in order to prevent further damage to the nervous system.</p>","PeriodicalId":35577,"journal":{"name":"Connecticut Medicine","volume":"80 10","pages":"593-595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36219430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Address of the New President: One Society.","authors":"Jeffrey A Gordon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35577,"journal":{"name":"Connecticut Medicine","volume":"80 10","pages":"609-610"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36219435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew Goldenberg, Sameer Hassamal, W. Ishak, M. Haglund, K. Miotto, I. Danovitch
{"title":"A Call to Action: The Active Role Psychiatrists and the DEA Must Take to Decrease Harm from Psychotropic Drugs Acquired via the Internet.","authors":"Matthew Goldenberg, Sameer Hassamal, W. Ishak, M. Haglund, K. Miotto, I. Danovitch","doi":"10.4088/JCP.15cr10606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.15cr10606","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35577,"journal":{"name":"Connecticut Medicine","volume":"77 11 1","pages":"e1495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70323501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remarks from the Annual Meeting.","authors":"Matthew C Katz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35577,"journal":{"name":"Connecticut Medicine","volume":"80 10","pages":"613-615"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36219706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Federal Drug Administration Fluoroquinolone Warning and a Practical Approach to Managing Patients.","authors":"Samantha N Steiger, Michael D Nailor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35577,"journal":{"name":"Connecticut Medicine","volume":"80 10","pages":"601-605"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36219434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Snow-Shoveling-Induced Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.","authors":"Lane Zhang, Kevin P Marzo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Snow shoveler's infarction is the phenomenon of increased incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) in the days following a snow storm. Followingheavy snowfall, public awareness of snow- shoveling-induced MI is heightened by news cover- age. We report a case of show-shoveling-induced chest pain with ECG changes concerning for MI. Emergent angiography revealed normal coronary arteries and apical ballooning consistent with ta- kotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM). TCM, a transient cardiomyopathy, is often clinically indistinguishable from MI and is often induced by emotional/ physical stress. In conclusion, TCM is an alternative diagnosis to MI in patients presenting with chest pain after a period of heavy snowfall.</p>","PeriodicalId":35577,"journal":{"name":"Connecticut Medicine","volume":"80 10","pages":"589-591"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36219432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daichi Hayashi, Yogesh Kumar, Neeraj Bhatt, Ian G Karol
{"title":"Calf Muscle Herniation Presenting Twelve Month After Dog Bite Injuries: A Case Report.","authors":"Daichi Hayashi, Yogesh Kumar, Neeraj Bhatt, Ian G Karol","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dog bites are the most common animal bite injuries in the US. One of the rare complications that can occur is muscle herniation, through a fascial defect created by the bite. It can be associated with pain and a palpable lump. We report a rare case of simultaneous tibialis anterior and soleus muscle hernias in a middle-aged man caused by dog bites in the calf 12 months prior to presentation. To the best of our knowledge, this clinical scenario has not been previously reported in the literature. Clinicians should be aware that a remote history of dog bites may be a clinically im- portant history to elicit in a patient presenting with pain and a palpable lump in the lower extremity.</p>","PeriodicalId":35577,"journal":{"name":"Connecticut Medicine","volume":"80 10","pages":"597-600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36219433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}