Part I

Searching of Moral Certainty in Medicine: A Proposal for a New Model of the Doctor-Patient Encounter. Bull. N.Y. Acad. Med. 1981; 57: 56-69.

Friday Reflection 4: Days of Leaves, Trees, and Forests

Friday Reflection 5: Well, That Could Have Gone Better

Friday Reflection 16: The Evolution of a Stable Practice

Friday Reflection 19: A Pledge That Can be Hard to Honor

Friday Reflection 23: The Ghost Patient Panel

Friday Reflection 25: The Advice I’d Like to Give a Student Entering Medical School

Friday Reflection 52: The Three Worst Phone Calls of My Career

The Moment I Realized AI Will Introduce a Brave New World for Medicine

Diseases Just Learned

Physician expertise, advocacy, and the decline of the USPSTF

The cost of satisfaction: a national study of patient satisfaction, health care utilization, expenditures, and mortality. Arch Intern Med 2012; 172: 405-411

Influence of patients' expectations on antibiotic management of acute lower respiratory tract illness in general practice: questionnaire study. BMJ 1997; 315:1211

Do Unmet Expectations for Specific Tests, Referrals, and New Medications Reduce Patients’ Satisfaction? JGIM 2004;19:1080-1087

Patient satisfaction after anaesthesia and surgery: results of a prospective survey of 10,811 patients. Br J Anaesth 2000;84: 6-10

Patient-Experience Data and Bias — What Ratings Don’t Tell Us. N Engl J Med 2019; 380:801-803 

Part II

1. Basic science

   1. Cifu AS, Koeppe II RE, Andersen AS. On the Supramolecular Organization of Gramicidin Channels, The Elementary Conducting Unit is a Dimer. Biophysical Journal. 1992;61:189-203.

2. Clinical science

   1. O'Donnell PH, et al. Pharmacogenomics-Based Point-of-Care Clinical Decision Support Significantly Alters Drug Prescribing. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2017;102:859-869.

3. Meta research

   1. Chapa J, Haq, Cifu AS. Comparative Analysis of the Factors Associated with Citation and Media Coverage of Clinical Research. Scientometrics. 2017;112:1271-1283.

4. Perspectives, viewpoints, reflections

   1. Prasad V, Cifu AS, Ioannidis JPA. Reversals of Established Medical Practices: Evidence to Abandon Ship. JAMA. 2012;307:37-38.

5. Education and Advocacy

   1. Cifu AS. Advice to a Student Starting Medical School. JAMA. 2018;320:759-760.

   2. Prasad V, Cifu AS. President Bush’s Unnecessary Surgery. The Washington Post, 8/9/13. 

   3. Cifu AS. Adam Cifu: Can we learn how to understand each other while we disagree over pandemic issues? Chicago Tribune. 5/19/22.