To the Editor: In the study by McGlynn et al. (June 26 issue),¹ participants received only about half of recommended care. It may be possible to double efficiency by working harder and smarter, as Steinberg suggests in his accompanying editorial,² but ...

To the Editor: Ross et al. (Aug. 14 issue)¹ suggest that a history of brain tumor in childhood predisposes patients to subsequent psychosis but not to major depression. This result is at odds with our experience that depressive disorders are common in ...

To the Editor: We read with interest the work of Bozzette et al. (Feb. 20 issue),¹ who describe reduced rates of cardiovascular events among patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (...

To the Editor: Clayton's description of the case of Sierra Creason misrepresents the facts (Aug. 7 issue).¹ The thyroid values were not “abnormally low.” Thousands of unaffected newborns had the same negative results. The case was not one of congenital ...

To the Editor: In the review article by Merlini and Bellotti (Aug. 7 issue),¹ familial Mediterranean fever was listed as one of the common periodic-fever syndromes that may lead to reactive (amyloid protein A, or AA) amyloidosis. However, there is no ...

To the Editor: The Perspective article by Morse (May 29 issue)¹ addresses the transmission of West Nile virus through organ transplantation and blood transfusion. Less than 1 percent of the more than 4000 cases diagnosed in 2002 were attributed to ...

To the Editor: Bailey and Chaitman (Aug. 7 issue)¹ present an electrocardiogram from a patient with a traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage. The electrocardiogram shows rather marked ST-segment and T-wave abnormalities, and the authors state that the ...

To the Editor: The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Taiwan described by Hsieh (Aug. 14 issue)¹ grew rapidly from mid-April 2003. We note the chronologic relation between this rapid wave of infections and the visit of a resident of ...

Paul Farmer is a 44-year-old specialist in infectious diseases and an attending physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. His biographer, Tracy Kidder, read his book on the connections between poverty and disease — Infections and ...

There are many reasons why physicians need to provide culturally competent health care. Increasing numbers of patients belong to minority groups, have limited proficiency in English, or were born in foreign lands. Culturally competent physicians may be ...

I recently listened to a presentation by Dr. Mervyn Hardinge, founding dean and professor emeritus at Loma Linda University's School of Public Health. With candor and humor, he eloquently reviewed the history of modern vegetarianism by recounting his ...

Books with nearly 100 pages of references, not to mention notes, are treasures as resources, even if their content and the discussion they contain require much work of the reader. Remembering Trauma is such a book. It is not, however, about remembering ...

Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy plus Cystectomy Compared with Cystectomy Alone for Locally Advanced Bladder Cancer Original Article, N Engl J Med 2003:349;859-866.. On page 864, lines 3 to 5 of the last partial paragraph should have read, “The estimated risk of ...

Mind the Gap Clinical Problem-Solving, N Engl J Med 2003:349;1465-1469.. On page 1466, in the formula that begins on line 4 of the third paragraph in the left-hand column, the first amount should have read “2× the serum sodium level,” rather than “2× the ...