Radiation therapy directed at the abdomen may damage the digestive tract, the type and
extent of injury depending on the dose of the radiation and the radiation sensitivity of the gut. …

The treatment of medical illness today depends much more on science and technology than
on the physician's ability to listen, comfort, and prescribe. Medicine is not only increasingly …

Amyloid involving the gastrointestinal tract may be deposited anywhere in the mucosa, the
blood vessels, or in the muscular layers. It causes derangement of bowel function by direct …

We have reviewed the natural history, reliability of diagnosis, and survivorship of 100 patients
with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, in the context of a thorough review of the literature …

We compared the surgical and medical managements of reflux esophagitis in a prospective
clinical trial. Patients with severe reflux symptoms and evidence of objective reflux …

My purposes in writing [this book] are several:(1) to suggest that the scientific approach to
human disease and illness—the molecular model of medicine—is not sufficient by itself to …

Plasma pancreatic glucagon concentrations were determined in the basal state and after
the infusion of alanine in 10 patients with acute pancreatitis (5 in an initial episode of …

Since the advent of corticotropin (ACTH) therapy, a number of reports have appeared
describing massive gastric hemorrhage or the development, reactivation, or perforation of peptic …

THE pathophysiologic effects of vitamin E deficiency in man remain uncertain some forty years
after isolation and purification of this vitamin. Although tocopherol depletion in infants and …

In this book an eminent physician explores how patients and caring doctors can help lessen
suffering when illness occurs. Dr. Howard Spiro urges that physicians focus on their patients…