Despite successful medical intervention, people with acromegaly don’t always share their clinician’s optimistic outlook. Eliza B. Geer, MD, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Multidisciplinary Pituitary & Skull Base Tumor Center, takes us through a holistic approach to treating this often-confounding condition and how a team-based methodology is frequently the key to success. Recently, I was...The Importance of Symptom Control: A Holistic Approach to Treating Acromegaly
Despite successful medical intervention, people with acromegaly don’t always share their clinician’s optimistic outlook. Eliza B. Geer, MD, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Multidisciplinary Pituitary & Skull Base Tumor Center, takes us through a holistic approach to treating this often-confounding condition and how a team-based methodology is frequently the key to success. Recently, I was...
Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, first got into research because of the Vietnam War. As described in his new book A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: The Adrenaline-Fueled Adventures of an Accidental Scientist, he joined the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) to avoid being sent to Vietnam as a military doctor in...
Endocrine News continues its conversation with some of the clinical practitioner members of the Endocrine Society on their views of patient-centered care. What does it mean for a practice, a patient, and the physician? This article picks up where it left off last month with an ongoing dialogue among physicians about what constitutes patient-centered care....
Although it is ending this year, the Endocrine Society’s Ambassador Exchange Program launched in 2013 as part of a three-year strategic planning initiative to establish “collaborative relationships between leading medical centers in the United States and international medical centers serving indigent populations.” Katy J. Brown, DO, an endocrinologist in Missoula, Mont., writes about her experiences...
