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Physician Blogs

ALLERGY & CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
  • Atopic Topics
    Dr. Gary Stadtmauer, an allergist in New York City, writes from the perspective of a private-practice doctor who teaches, occasionally publishes, and also works in human rights.
ANESTHESIOLOGY
CRITICAL CARE
  • Critical Issues
    Dr. David Kaufman, a critical care specialist in Connecticut, discusses what's going on in critical care medicine, focusing on dilemmas, hot topics, and published research.
DERMATOLOGY
  • Rash Decisions
    Dr. Emily Altman addresses current and interesting issues in medical and cosmetic dermatology, dermatologic surgery, and dermatopathology.
DIABETES & ENDOCRINOLOGY
  • The Diabetes Beat
    Dr. Matthew Mintz discusses the latest research and news on the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes.
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
  • Analyze This: Image of the Week
    This blog is dedicated to creating a dialog between members of the Medscape health care community by presenting interesting and confounding images for diagnosis and discussion.
  • Chief Complaint
    This group blog focuses on clinical issues and concerns for practicing emergency physicians, including interesting cases, clinical pearls, and journal reviews, while touching on the psychosocial, legislative, and medico-legal aspects of emergency medicine.
FAMILY MEDICINE
GASTROENTEROLOGY
  • Gut Reaction
    Dr. Jason Swoger and Dr. Miguel Regueiro are on the gastroenterology faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania. They write primarily about the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, including ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease, covering new developments in diagnosis and treatment.
GENERAL SURGERY
  • Finger on the Pulse
    This blog presents a creative perspective on general and vascular surgery. A discussion of the evolution of surgical technique, and how to push the envelope to provide outstanding care.
GENOMIC MEDICINE
  • Human Genome and Clinical Diagnosis: The Yin and the Yang
    Dr. Bruce Buehler is Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He writes about the advantages and disadvantages of new knowledge gained from the Human Genome Project, offering guidance on ways to interpret and apply genetic markers for treatment.
  • Topol on Genomics
    Dr. Eric Topol is Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and Chief Academic Officer for Scripps Health in San Diego, California. He provides regular updates and insights on genomic medicine and its effects on everyday practice.
HIV/AIDS
  • AIDScan
    This weekly blog by Dr. José M. Zuniga, President of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC), highlights issues of interest to HIV-treating clinicians, public policy advocates, and others engaged in the delivery of HIV prevention, testing, research, care, and treatment worldwide.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
  • Preventing Infections: Spreading the Word
    Dr. Luke Chen, from Duke University, shares the results of novel studies, offers clinical perspectives on epidemiologically important infections, and discusses measures to help prevent healthcare-associated infections.
  • Host-Pathogen Passages
    Dr. Joshua Nosanchuk, from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine writes about basic and clinical research, clinical care, public policy, and education.
  • Rubor, Dolor, Calor, Tumor
    Dr. Mark Crislip practices in infectious diseases in Portland, Oregon. He is "nobody from nowhere" but he likes to write about "the most endlessly fascinating specialty in all of medicine."
  • Spores and More: An ID Doc's Take on Infections
    Dr. Shmuel Shoham, Scientific Director of MedStar Clinical Research Center and Director of Transplant Infectious Disease at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, shares cases and clinical pearls, and discusses relevant journal articles.
INTERNAL MEDICINE
  • Doctor's Orders
    Dr. Sam Pannick is a trainee physician at Northwick Park Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital, both in London. He offers his take on medicine from the front lines, discussing patients, doctors, nurses, and everything in between.
NEUROLOGY
  • Commissural Connections
    Samuel Pleasure, MD, PhD, is Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He writes about issues of interest to neurologists, focusing on basic science with significant translational implications for neurologists.
  • Wilner on Neurology
    Dr. Andrew Wilner is a neurohospitalist at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, CT, and medical advisor for the Accordant Health Services Epilepsy Disease Management Program. He provides commentary and analysis on selected topics in Neurology.
OB/GYN & WOMEN'S HEALTH
  • GlobalMama: Insights from the Maternal Health Task Force
    The Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth acts as a catalyst, information hub, and facilitator for organizations working in maternal health. By expanding the dialogue through this blog, we hope to hasten improvements to the health of mothers around the world.
  • Labor Intensive
    Dr. Chavi Karkowsky is a fellow in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, reporting from the frontlines of obstetrics.
  • Push
    Mallory Kremer, MD is a first year resident in OB/GYN. This blog explores and encourages discussion about women's health issues, sharing the stories and travails of being an OB/GYN-in-training at a county hospital in middle America.
ONCOLOGY
  • Patients, Practice, and Personal Care
    Dr. Lidia Schapira is a medical oncologist at the Gillette Center for Breast Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She writes about doctor-patient communication, improving access to clinical trials for underserved patients, and the psychosocial care of cancer patients.
  • Blowing Smoke
    Dr. H. Jack West, a Seattle-based oncologist, is founder and President of the Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE), a non-profit organization that provides information for cancer patients and the general public. He provides a mix of data and incisive commentary on lung cancer and other aspects of thoracic oncology.
  • OncNotes
    Dr. Alok Khorana is Associate Professor and Vice-Chief of Hematology/Oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester, New York. He offers thoughts on cancer therapeutics, cancer biology, and cancer complications, with occasional forays into the art of medicine.
  • Cancer Care Issues - Advice From Dr. Cary Presant
    A hematologist and medical oncologist, Dr. Cary Presant is a staff physician at Wilshire Oncology Medical Group and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles. He describes research results, offers observations on oncology issues, and discusses current cancer care topics.
OPHTHALMOLOGY
  • Clear Views on Refractive and Cornea Surgery
    Cornea and Refractive surgery is a rapidly evolving and innovative field in ophthalmology. Drs. Trattler and Hatch will discuss and review current topics and controversies in this progressing field of medicine. Topics including laser vision correction, advances in cornea and cataract surgery and current treatments for Keratoconus will be on the forefront for discussion in this blog.
  • Retina Nation
    Retina Nation is the Medscape blog (authored by Douglas J. Covert, MD, MPH) for all topics in the realm of medical retina and vitreoretinal surgery. Check here for news, clinical and surgical case presentations, highlights from recent journal articles, clinical pearls, and reader surveys.
PATHOLOGY & LAB MEDICINE
  • Lab Line by the Doctor's Doctor
    Dr. Thomas Wheeler is Chair of the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. This blog provides commentary on a broad range of topics from anatomic pathology (surgical, autopsy, cytopathology) to clinical pathology (hematopathology and chemical pathology, transfusion medicine and blood banking, microbiology, serology, and immunology).
PEDIATRICS
  • A Musing Pediatrician
    Dr. Gregory Lawton, from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), states his main job is "to explain, to reassure, and to know when to refer," because most of what a general pediatrician sees is a variation of normal.
PLASTIC SURGERY
PSYCHIATRY
  • Free Associations
    Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH, is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. He offers a view of psychiatry "from the inside."
PUBLIC HEALTH & PREVENTION
  • Public Health Portraits in the New Millennium: Mini's Musings
    Padmini (Mini) Murthy, MD, MPH, is Assistant Professor at the New York Medical College in New York City. She writes about the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health.
  • Sizable Issues
    Rebecca Puhl, PhD, is the Director of Research at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She discusses timely research findings and offers provocative commentary about the stigma and prejudice related to obesity -- also known as "weight bias" -- and its implications for healthcare and quality of life for people struggling with weight.
  • Through the Looking Glass: A Viewpoint on Public Health
    Avni M. Shah, MBBS, MPH, presents thought-provoking personal perspectives on current public health events and issues in developing nations as well as the United States.
RADIOLOGY
  • Scan & Machine
    New technologies displayed on the RSNA exhibit floor are the tarot cards of radiology. They reveal the larger aspects of this specialty - the forces driving its evolution and the trends shaped by them. This blog, which began by focusing on key developments at RSNA 2011, is continuing with perspectives on new developments and issues affecting radiology and the many disciplines that depend on it.
RHEUMATOLOGY
  • Wei on Arthritis
    Dr. Nathan Wei comments on developments in rheumatology... informative, sometimes provocative... sometimes irreverent... and no punches pulled.

BUSINESS OF MEDICINE BLOGS

  • Dr. Unplugged
    Dr. Joseph Smith, Chief Medical and Science Officer for the West Wireless Health Institute, offers an ongoing perspective of what's working in wireless healthcare, what isn't working, and why you should care.
  • Weekend Call
    Dr. Greg Hood is a practicing internist in Lexington, Kentucky, who shares his personal views on the practice and business of medicine.
  • The Kane Scrutiny: Money and Medicine
    Leslie Kane, Editorial Director of Medscape's Business of Medicine site, examines the business, legal, ethical, and practice challenges of today's doctors.
  • The Verdict Is In
    Dr. Tony Francis highlights current legal issues related to the practice of medicine.

MEDICAL STUDENT BLOGS

  • The Differential
    Follow the lives of several medical students around the world as they chronicle their way through medical training.
  • The Ink Blot
    Dr. Kendra Campbell, a psychiatry resident in New York City, prescribes a weekly dose of life on the wards.
  • The Match Game
    Preparing for residency and the Match is a continuous process throughout medical school. Here, two students share their journey and invite your comments and questions.

NURSING BLOGS

DENTISTRY & ORAL HEALTH BLOGS

  • Dentistry Advanced by Science
    Margaret Scarlett, DMD, writes about how science can best be leveraged in today's dental practice to improve oral health.
 
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