Pelzman's Picks: The Rise of Superbugs

• Lifestyle factors appear to play an important role in cancer mortality, Mingyang Song, MD, ScD, and Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD, report in the Journal of the American Medical Association ~ Preventable Incidence and Mortality of Carcinoma Associated With Lifestyle Factors Among White Adults in the United States
• Experts have expressed concern about the threat of superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics and untreatable, Sabrina Tavernise and Denise Grady write in The New York Times ~ Infection Raises Specter of Superbugs Resistant to All Antibiotics
• More and more doctors are sharing their medical notes with patients, Julie A. Jacob, MA, writes in JAMA ~ Patient Access to Physician Notes Is Gaining Momentum
• Dhruv Khullar, MD, explores how to handle getting "pimped" during medical training in The New York Times ~ Doctors Getting 'Pimped'
• "Should I place my patient at greater risk of dying on this flight in the interest of the well-being of another patient?" Martin F. Shapiro, MD, PhD, asks in New England Journal of Medicine ~ Considering the Common Good -- The View from Seven Miles Up
• What's really in your vitamins? Consumers are pushing for greater transparency, Stephanie Strom writes in The New York Times ~ Vitamins Join the 'Clean Label' Bandwagon
• "Precision medicine may eventually replace the use of race in treatment decisions, but several hurdles will have to be overcome," Vence L. Bonham, JD, and colleagues write in NEJM ~ Will Precision Medicine Move Us beyond Race?

Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what's going on in the world of primary care medicine. Pelzman's Picks is a compilation of links to blogs, articles, tweets, journal studies, opinion pieces, and news briefs related to primary care that caught his eye.

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Pelzman's Picks: The Rise of Superbugs