Library Entries

IMPROVING CARE CLINICAL HARM REDUCTION FOR ADDICTION: A STRATEGY INTERNISTS CAN (AND DO) EMBRACE Dale Terasaki, MD MPH
With the opioid epidemic raging, there are many calls from ...

PERSPECTIVE/BREADTH NALOXONE: A LIFESAVING PLACE TO START Rebecca Levine, MD
I saw Mr. N, one of my preceptor’s patients, in my primary care resident clinic. His PCP had seen him ...

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH: WEIGHING IN ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF ACTION Karen DeSalvo, MD, President, SGIM
This past summer, my husband and I traveled to Wyoming ...

FROM THE EDITOR THE AMERICAN DREAM Joseph Conigliaro, MD, MPH, Editor in Chief, SGIM Forum
Last month, my mother, Giuseppina “Pina” Conigliaro, passed away after a short illness, ...

PERSPECTIVE MEDICARE FOR ALL 2020 Adam E. Block, PhD, and Jade L. Bedell, MHA
Healthcare reform has historically been an incremental process in the United States. What began nearly ...

LEADERSHIP PROFILE/IN CONVERSATION AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. PETER BOLING—THE 2019 DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF GERIATRICS Patricia Harris, MD, MS
At the 2019 meeting, Dr. Peter Boling ...

ANNUAL MEETING UPDATE: PART III ATTENDING SGIM19 AS A FORMER YOUNG SCHOLAR IN GIM Joan Bosco, MD
Among physicians, it is increasingly common to feel detached from patients and work, ...

PERSPECTIVE SGIM IN ALABAMA: MAKING OUR MARK IN CONTROVERSY Sirisha Narayana, MD, and Erin Dunn Snyder, MD
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019, the Alabama State Senate approved a measure to ...

ANNUAL MEETING UPDATE: PART II SOCIETY OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE ANNOUNCES ITS 2019 AWARD AND GRANT RECIPIENTS Francine Jetton, MA, Director of Communications and Publications, SGIM
The ...

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MEETS THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH Karen DeSalvo, MD, President, SGIM
I have been hesitant to write this article about data ...