Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volume 4 Issue 4

Table of Contents

Message from the President

Two Shoes Dropping e Voices

Bert Govig, MD

Message du Président

Deux chaussures qui tombent

Bert Govig, MD

Resident GIM

Alexander A.C. Leung MD, Peter G. Hamilton MBBCh

Consultation Letters Written by Internal Medicine Residents: Areas of Strengths and Weaknesses

Diem-Quyen Nguyen MD, Michèle Mahone MD, Jean-Victor Patenaude MD, Benoit Deligne MD, Isabelle Coiteux MD, Steephen Di Tommaso MD

Guidelines Review

Diagnosis and Management of Hemochromatosis

Jason Hart MD

Case Reviews

Orthostatic Hypotension

Siavosh Vakilian MD, Ronald Schondorf MD, Kaberi Dasgupta MD

Headache with Neurological Deficits and Cerebrospinal Fluid Lymphocytosis (HaNDL)

Vikram Tangri MD

Myasthenia Gravis: A Challenging Presentation Heralding Acute Respiratory Failure

Maria Bagovich MD, Mohamed Panju MD, Rajendar Hanmiah MD, Susan Goodwin MD

EKG & U

A Cinch, or a Glitch?

George Veenhuyzen MD

Practice of GIM

Tracheostomy: A Primer for Internists

Paul T. Engels MD, Peter G. Brindley MD

Physician Health

Foreward: Well Doc? Reflections from Internal Medicine Physicians

Well Doc? What Constitutes Quality of Life for Physicians?

Jane Lemaire MD, Jean E. Wallace PhD

Pharm-GIM

Routine Monitoring of Creatinine Kinase and Liver Transaminases in Patients Receiving Statins:

Is Current Practice Justified?

Melanie McLeod BSP ACPR PharmD, Glen J. Pearson PharmD

Clinical Approach

Carotid Artery Stenting Experience by Interventional Cardiologists in a Canadian Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

Jacqueline Saw MC, Simon J. Walsh MD, Phillip Teal MD, Andrew Starovoytov MB, Rebecca Fox MSc, Percy Jokhi MD, Anothony Y. Fung MBBS

Images in GIM

Flash Pulmonary Edema in a Healthy Young Woman

Jessica Otte MD, Kevin Patterson MD