Welcome to the online home of The Journal of Lancaster General Hospital. 



THE SUMMER ISSUE IS NOW AVAILABLE


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The newest issue of The Journal of Lancaster General Hospital features several important articles, including:
  • A report on polypharmacy — the accumulation of five or more medications — that outlines its risks and offers a 10-step approach to deprescribing.
  • A review of novel pharmacotherapeutic agents for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
  • A quality-improvement project aimed at improving attitudes and readiness to provide trauma-infomred care among staff at an outpatient cancer center.
  • A transcript of the Laurence E. Carroll, MD 2024 Lecture, held in April at LG Health. The topic: the challenges of improving quality-of-care and advancing health equity.
This issue’s cover photo of the Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute is by David Lang, physician assistant at LGHP Comprehensive Care and the Union Community Care School-Based Health Clinic at Carter & MacRae Elementary School, Lancaster.

► To read the Summer issue online, click on the journal cover at right.

► To download a PDF of the full print issue, click here.



Q&A FOR EXTENDED LEARNING


The Spring issue of JLGH offered articles on clinical inertia and medication treatment plans for type 2 diabetes mellitus, a risk-benefit analysis of duloxetine, and other practice recommendations. Click here to review questions and answers about the issue to see how much you remember.

Need a refresher? All issues of JLGH are available online under Past Issues at left.


 

SUBMIT YOUR STORY IDEAS


Editor in Chief Corey Fogleman, MD, put out a call last year for narrative medicine articles. “Rereading and rewriting about what we encounter forces us to emphasize and economize, to pair some ideas and pare others,” he wrote in his Spring 2023 editorial.

Your stories might address staff experiences, patient experiences, or anything else that might be educational for our readers. Or you might wish to consider one of the prompts suggested by Dr. Fogleman.

To read those prompts and more of Dr. Fogleman’s thoughts on the importance of narrative medicine, click here. To share your story ideas, please write to us via our Contact Us page.


 

EARN CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT


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