Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston

Internal Medicine

Herbert L. Fred, MD is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a top medical university. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is ranked 3 in research and 29 in primary care medicine Herbert Fred is a published doctor and has 98 publications published. The lastest was: 'Striking, asymptomatic skin lesions in a 42-year-old man.'

Publications

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• Homophones: sound-alike impediments to effective communication.
• In good health: an opinion at best.
• Unsuspected pulmonary thromboemboli: a continuing clinical challenge.
• The traditional (paper) hospital record: showplace for bad habits.
• Medical education on the brink: 62 years of front-line observations and opinions.
• On getting what we deserve: differing perspectives.
• Medical mystery: fever, polyarthritis, and a strange rash. Leprosy.
• Is Jupiter also a god of primary prevention?
• Pericardial fat necrosis: a review and update.
• Bedside skills: an exchange between dinosaurs.
• On redefining hypertension.
• Dizzy medical writing and editing: here we go again.
• The downside of medical progress: the mourning of a medical dinosaur.
• The air crescent sign: causes and characteristics.
• Responding to adversity: a story worth remembering.
• Milton + Sutton = Mutton: "know what to do and when to do it".
• Atypical chest pain: a typical humpty dumpty coinage.
• Dishonesty in medicine revisited.
• "Chronic" dishonesty in medicine?
• Elephant medicine revisited.
• These are the days: the internship revisited.
• Maxwell Myer Wintrobe: new history and a new appreciation.
• On the sagging of medical professionalism.
• Encephalitis: an astounding follow-up.
• A sempiternal chest tube?
• Drawbacks and limitations of computed tomography: views from a medical educator.
• Images in cardiovascular medicine. Polyarteritis nodosa inducing symmetric peripheral gangrene.
• Hyperinfection syndrome in strongyloidiasis: report of two cases.
• Acronymesis: the exploding misuse of acronyms.
• Images in cardiovascular medicine. Flash pulmonary edema heralding renal artery stenosis.
• Images in cardiovascular medicine. A broken heart.
• To be B or not to be B--is that the question?
• TIA--treacherously inaccurate acronym.
• The late forties and early fifties: a memorable time in medicine.
• Similarities between Patients and Submitted Manuscripts.
• On Medical Writing Today.
• The Diagnosis of Exclusion: An Ongoing Uncertainty.
• Accurate Blood Pressure Measurements and the Other Arm: The Doctor is Ultimately Responsible.
• Little black bags, ophthalmoscopy, and the roth spot.
• C.T. Scanner dies.
• Algorithms: let's give them back.
• The numbers game.
• Eyeing pathogens in the peripheral blood film.
• Case in point. Carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater.
• Curable conspicuous ascites: the forgotten four.
• DLTBGYD.
• The blind leading the blind.
• Tenets for physicians in the new millennium.
• Just what the doctor ordered.
• Images in clinical medicine. Lipemia retinalis.
• Washing our hands of the matter.
• Striking, asymptomatic skin lesions in a 42-year-old man.
• The clinicopathological conference.
• Case in point. Obstructed inferior vena cava.
• Case in point. Dental sinus tract.
• Seizures and pulmonary embolism.
• Case in points. Secondary syphilis.
• Atypical chest pain: a typical Humpty Dumpty term.
• Case in point. Chest-wall lipoma.
• Case in point. Prostatic stones.
• Buzz words and buzz procedures.
• When the bell doesn't ring.
• Bluish skin lesions, anemia, and focal seizures in a young boy.
• Digital rectal examination during early acute MI.
• Case in point. Lipemia retinalis.
• Sudden retrosternal pain in a young weight lifter.
• Case in point. Chronic aortic dissection.
• Case in point. Perinephric abscess.
• Case in point. Eosinophilic pneumonia.
• Gross hematuria in a young woman with seizures and skin lesions.
• Images in clinical medicine. Liver abscess with septic pulmonary emboli.
• Case in point. Wilson's disease.
• Abdominal pain, leg weakness, and alopecia in a teenage boy.
• High fever and shaking chills in a heroin addict.
• The tyranny of technology.
• Case in point. Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis.
• Abdominal discomfort in a man with sprue.
• Ophthalmoplegia and palatal necrosis in a man with diabetes.
• Diffuse hyperpigmentation in a man with diabetes.
• Rapidly progressive deafness in a young woman.
• Sudden, persistent facial discoloration after chest trauma.
• Jaundice and extreme hypercholesterolemia after a stroke.
• Leg pain and kidney disease in a 38-year-old man.
• Chronic bruising in a 40-year-old woman.
• Case in point. Emphysematous cystitis.
• Large pulmonary arteries in an asymptomatic elderly woman.
• Images in cardiovascular medicine. Saccular aortic aneurysm simulating pulmonary artery aneurysm.
• Case in point. Metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.
• Linear hepatic gas shadows in a woman with acute abdominal pain.
• Photophobia and thickened eyelids in a healthy-appearing nurse.
• Case in point. Tophaceous gout.
• Ophthalmoscopic and cardiac abnormalities in an asymptomatic elderly woman.
• Dizzy medical writing and editing: a decade of non-progress.
• Five cases in search of a diagnostician.
• The interesting patient.
• Case in point. Wound botulism.
• Case in point. Scurvy.

Schools

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• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

• University Ut Affil Hospital

• University Ut

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• University of Utah
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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