Abstract:
:The Biblical Book of Job is a wisdom book. Wisdom, in this context, refers to the intellectual discipline taught by the sages of ancient Isreael to provide professionals with a realistic approach to the problems of life. Chapter 30 of the Book of Job is a key-index of ideas that, if followed through the book, discloses a modern scientifically accurate description of a depression that, at times, was life-threatening. There are practical clinical clues to distinguish between normal mourning and depression, as well as aids to the differential diagnosis of somatic symptoms that may arise from depression. A timeless model of the scope and limitations of the professional relation between patient and comforter is also presented. Part of the wisdom of the Book of Job is to use depression as an example of a life-threatening illness to provide an unexcelled standard of clinical observation and medical intervention.
journal_name
Ann Intern Medjournal_title
Annals of internal medicineauthors
Kapusta MA,Frank Sdoi
10.7326/0003-4819-86-5-667subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1977-05-01 00:00:00pages
667-72issue
5eissn
0003-4819issn
1539-3704journal_volume
86pub_type
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-89-3-310
更新日期:1978-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
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更新日期:2000-03-21 00:00:00
abstract::The 1950s witnessed prodigious growth in our knowledge of the chemical nature of the gene, the mechanisms by which the information inherent in its sequence of nucleotide units was conveyed to the cell's machinery for synthesizing proteins, and the mode of operation of that machinery. Watson and Crick raised the curtai...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 评论,历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-138-7-200304010-00016
更新日期:2003-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-100-5-646
更新日期:1984-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Advice and exercise are widely recommended for subacute low back pain, but the effectiveness of these interventions is unclear. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effectiveness of physiotherapist-prescribed exercise, advice, or both for subacute low back pain. DESIGN:Factorial randomized, placebo-controlled tria...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-146-11-200706050-00007
更新日期:2007-06-05 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The vast scientific literature on smoking and health contains few large studies with direct estimates of long-term mortality by smoking habits. Data have been lacking, particularly for women. OBJECTIVE:To study smoking and deaths and causes of death in women and men of middle age (40 to 70 years of age). D...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-144-6-200603210-00004
更新日期:2006-03-21 00:00:00
abstract::Evidence on the safety and efficacy of methotrexate as a second- or third-line agent for treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis is reviewed. Four placebo-controlled clinical trials have documented short-term benefit from methotrexate; although true remission is rare, patients receiving methotrexate showed a 26% (...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,评审
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-107-2-358
更新日期:1987-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine whether growth hormone replacement in older men improves functional ability. DESIGN:Randomized, controlled, double-blind trial. SETTING:General community. PATIENTS:52 healthy men older than 69 years of age with well-preserved functional ability but low baseline insulin-like growth factor 1 lev...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-124-8-199604150-00002
更新日期:1996-04-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-100-1-73
更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.7326/M18-1932
更新日期:2019-03-05 00:00:00
abstract::The term functional somatic syndrome has been applied to several related syndromes characterized more by symptoms, suffering, and disability than by consistently demonstrable tissue abnormality. These syndromes include multiple chemical sensitivity, the sick building syndrome, repetition stress injury, the side effect...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-130-11-199906010-00016
更新日期:1999-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-127-10-199711150-00010
更新日期:1997-11-15 00:00:00
abstract::Gentamicin and tobramycin were compared for cost effectiveness in the treatment of adult patients with serious infections in a general medical service. We used data from a randomized double-blind trial in which the only observed difference between the clinical effects of these aminoglycosides was the incidence of neph...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-101-6-764
更新日期:1984-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To integrate information from the various disciplines that contribute to the understanding of the cause and prevention of sudden cardiac death: identification of new approaches from applied clinical epidemiology; identification and control of transient risk factors; and evaluation of the results of intervention...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-119-12-199312150-00006
更新日期:1993-12-15 00:00:00
abstract::Sleep problems are common in pregnant women. This review examines sleep in normal pregnancy; discusses the physiologic bases for alterations in sleep, including hormonal and mechanical factors; and correlates these factors with changes in sleep of pregnant women, as determined subjectively by surveys and objectively b...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-134-5-200103060-00012
更新日期:2001-03-06 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-122-3-199502010-00009
更新日期:1995-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-150-11-200906020-00003
更新日期:2009-06-02 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-101-1-63
更新日期:1984-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Neuroblastoma, the second commonest solid tumor in children, is a neoplasm of the peripheral autonomic nervous system that usually occurs before children are 6 years old. Therapy of localized tumor (clinical stage I and II) and of a special form of metastatic tumor (clinical stage IV-S) is usually successful, but trea...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-97-6-873
更新日期:1982-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::A patient with familial Mediterranean fever and amyloidosis who received a cadaver renal transplant 6 1/2 years ago was studied to determine the relation of the serum precursor of secondary amyloid (SAA) to the clinical course and to the deposition of amyloid in the transplant. Amyloid fibrils extracted from the patie...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-87-1-31
更新日期:1977-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:1992-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-136-11-200206040-00011
更新日期:2002-06-04 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To develop an early diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer based on the identification of K-ras mutations in pure pancreatic juice collected during endoscopic retrograde pancreatography. DESIGN:Prospective study with masked comparison. The standard criteria for the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer were pancreat...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-123-3-199508010-00005
更新日期:1995-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To determine the distribution of and risk factors for colonization and infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococci; to evaluate the molecular epidemiology of these strains; and to assess the effect of interventions, including 1) strict adherence to infection control procedures and 2) restricted use of va...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-123-4-199508150-00002
更新日期:1995-08-15 00:00:00
abstract::Within 4 days, two oncology patients in the Clinical Research Unit had bacteremia causes by group Y Neisseria meningitidis. Three additional patients, identified by prevalence survey, were found to have nasopharyngeal colonization with that serogroup, compared with only one employee (not associated with patients) and ...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-91-1-7
更新日期:1979-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-151-2-200907210-00003
更新日期:2009-07-21 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine the following: a reference range for serum calcitriol during hypercalcemia in a control group of patients with myeloma in whom calcitriol production is known to be appropriately suppressed; the incidence of elevated serum calcitriol levels in hypercalcemic patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma accor...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-121-9-199411010-00001
更新日期:1994-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/M19-1601
更新日期:2019-12-03 00:00:00
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journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/0003-4819-123-9-199511010-00003
更新日期:1995-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Recent postmarketing trials produced conflicting results about the risk for hospitalized heart failure (hHF) associated with dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, creating uncertainty about the safety of these antihyperglycemic agents. OBJECTIVE:To examine the associations of hHF with saxagliptin and s...
journal_title:Annals of internal medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.7326/M15-2568
更新日期:2016-06-07 00:00:00