Samuel Cykert

TL;DR: Most primary care physicians surveyed would not initiate any involvement with patients' spirituality in the medical encounter except for the clinical setting of dying, however, if a patient requests involvement, most physicians express a willingness to comply, even if the request involves prayer.

TL;DR: Complementary and alternative therapies were popular among patients with chronic pain disorders surveyed in academic primary care settings and when asked to choose between traditional therapies or CAM, most patients still preferred traditional therapies for pain relief.

TL;DR: Patients do not regard the postoperative outcomes reported in the lung surgery literature as sufficiently morbid to forego important surgery, and identification of preoperative predictors of postoperative physical debility would be invaluable for counseling patients who face difficult decisions about lung resection.

TL;DR: Advances in early diagnosis and curative treatment have reduced high mortality rates associated with non‐small cell lung cancer, but racial disparity in survival persists partly because Black patients receive less curative Treatment than White patients.