The October issue is online and coming to your mailbox

The October issue of ACP Internist highlights continuous glucose monitoring, house calls and managing irritable bowel syndrome.

Monitoring glucose minute by minute. Continuous glucose monitoring presents challenges not only to patients, but to internists learning how best to teach their patients how to use monitors. With a lack of enough endocrinologists to care for the 1 million patients with type 1 diabetes, internists have to pick up the slack.

House calls becoming a viable practice model. Think of it as the patient-centered medical home's ultimate evolution—care inside the patient's own home. More doctors are making house calls, either to patients who don't travel easily, or to improve the quality of care they can deliver in an office.

Expressive writing could help erase irritable bowel syndrome. Expressive writing, used for other illnesses with a known psychological component, is now being studied to control the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

Also included are the latest installments of Mindful Medicine, how your photocopier is really your office's biggest security risk, and the latest MKSAP Quiz.