SMJ: October 2021 Vol. 114, No. 10

October 1, 2021 // Randy Glick

The Southern Medical Journal(SMJ) is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Southern Medical Association. It has a multidisciplinary and inter-professional focus that covers a broad range of topics relevant to physicians and other healthcare specialists, including medicine; surgery; women’s and children’s health; mental health; emergency and disaster medicine; public health and environmental medicine; bioethics and medical education; and quality health care, patient safety, and best practices.

CME Article: Trends in Incidence and Mortality Rates of Uterine Cancer in Kentucky

Matthew R. Nichols, MD, Jeremy T. Gaskins, PhD, Daniel S. Metzinger, MD, Sarah L. Todd, MD, Harriet B. Eldredge-Hindy, MD, Scott R. Silva, MD, PhD

Preparing Health Professions Students to Serve Southern Rural Communities in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond: A Model for Interprofessional Online Telehealth Education

Teri Browne, PhD, Selina H. McKinney, PhD, Lauren Duck, MPH, Elizabeth W. Blake, PharmD, Beverly Baliko, PhD, Sara English, PhD, Rebecca Christopher, MSW

Do We Know Where They Go? Obtaining Travel History in Pediatric Patients

Pranaya H. Chilukuri, MD, MPH, Mary Orr, MD, MPH, Shaundra Blakemore, MD, Meghan E. Hofto, MD, MPH

Health Disparities of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Texas, March–July 2020

Christy Xavier, MS, PharmD, Rafia S. Rasu, MPharm, PhD

National Resident Matching Program Rank Order and Performance in an Internal Medicine Residency

George D. Everett, MD, MS, Edward Maharam, MD, Fanchao, Yi MS

CME Article: Sugammadex Reduces PACU Recovery Time after Abdominal Surgery Compared with Neostigmine

Jin Deng, MS, Maha Balouch, MA, Michael Albrink, MD, Enrico M. Camporesi, MD

On “On Aristotle and Upper Leveling”

G. Richard Holt, MD, MSE, MPH, MABE, D Bioethics

Association between Opioids Prescribed to Medical Inpatients with Pain and Long-Term Opioid Use

Kaitlin E. Keenan, MD, Michael B. Rothberg, MD, MPH, Shoshana J. Herzig, MD, MPH, Simon Lam, PharmD, BCPS, Vicente Velez, MD, Kathryn A. Martinez, PhD, MPH

Pediatric Providers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, and Barriers to Firearms Safety Counseling

Avni M. Bhalakia, MD, Annalyn DeMello, MPH, RN, Kristen Beckworth, MPH, Brittany Johnson, MD, Bindi Naik-Mathuria, MD, MPH

On Aristotle and Upper Leveling

Benjamin W. Frush, MD, MA