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R A KERN

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PubMed1953

The growing problem of suicide.

Informed as to the epidemiologic aspects of suicide and as to warning signs, physicians could, by appropriate action, prevent self-destruction in many cases. Not only ought each physician's office be a suicide prevention station, but all physicians ought to act in concert to gather data, to carry out a program of public instruction and to enlist the aid of the press in an effort to reduce the ever-increasing rate of suicide.

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PubMed1953

The management of allergic patients; practical considerations.

It is important that physicians know which of their patients have allergic sensitivity, for one patient in seven will at some time have a major allergic disease. New and more serious allergic diseases are appearing, in some cases owing to sensitivity to materials used in treatment. Allergic reaction may give rise to a host of symptoms and in many parts of the body. Sensitivity to one allergen may diminish and reaction to another develop in the same patient; allergic disease may affect one organ at one time, another organ at another time. The best way to know what patients have allergic sensitivity is to ask them. When patients are questioned, particular attention should be given to eliciting indications of personal or familial hypersensitivity. Knowing of a patient's allergic background, a physician may be able more readily to diagnose and treat a condition that might otherwise be dismaying. Also he may be alerted as to what not to use-what bandages, sutures, drugs - in treating the patient for any condition.

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