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The next issue of ACP Internist is online and coming to your mailbox. Top stories include the following.

Food allergies are a tough nut to crack. As public awareness of food allergies increases, identification and management into adulthood can be difficult to sort out, carrying the risk of misdiagnosis, according to specialists who are trying to improve physician education.

Internists don't need to defer treating pain. Pain is one of the most common symptoms seen by primary care physicians, but it can be the most difficult to handle. Chronic pain often requires time-intensive, complex regimens that call for careful management and monitoring, which is not easy to achieve in a busy primary care practice.

Attribution error results from a positive stereotype. In the next installment of Mindful Medicine, a 58-year-old man diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 38, a case of latent autoimmune diabetes of adulthood, reports worsening control of his blood sugars despite increasing doses of insulin. An internist must sort through the facts of the case to find out what's responsible.

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