Orthopedics Perspective

• After Hundreds of Interviews, Here's John Whyte's View of COVID   Our problem with vaccines is that we talk about people instead of talking with people and listening to their perspectives.
  Medscape, May 05, 2021
• AAPM 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAPM 2021
  Medscape Neurology, April 28, 2021
• How HIPAA Can Harm Patients As Dr Andrew Wilner has experienced first-hand, HIPAA may not always be in the patient's best interest.
  Medscape Neurology, April 23, 2021
• The Optimized Doctor: Say My Name Mispronouncing names can alienate patients.
  Medscape Dermatology, April 19, 2021
• Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2021: The Recovery Begins Physician compensation was atypical in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic. Almost 18,000 physicians told us about their income, bonus, hours worked, and greatest work challenges.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, April 16, 2021
• When Does a Person Become Your Patient? You get a phone call from a 'friend of a friend' asking for advice. Or you find a new problem (in a current patient) that's outside your expertise. What's your duty of care in each case?
  Medscape Family Medicine, April 08, 2021
• Docs Ignore Sexual Harassment: What Happened to Do No Harm?   Dr Alok Patel speaks out against sexual harassment in healthcare, with insights from Drs Natalie M. Crawford and Pamela Mehta.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, March 26, 2021
• COVID and the Athlete's Heart   When is it safe to return to play after having COVID? Bob Harrington and Manesh Patel discuss our evolving understanding of how SARS-CoV-2 affects the hearts of athletes and weekend warriors.
  theheart.org on Medscape, March 25, 2021
• Bone Fragility in Childhood: How Many Fractures Are Too Many?   Dr Laura Bachrach talks about some of the controversies, treatment options, and areas of research in pediatric bone fragility, from ENDO 2021.
  Endocrine Society, March 24, 2021
• Does Osteopathic Manipulation Relieve Low Back Pain?   A study that randomly assigned patients with low back pain to osteopathic manipulation or sham therapy was nicely executed, says F. Perry Wilson, but still leaves him a bit unsure.
  Medscape, March 17, 2021
• What You Should Know About Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Karmela Kim Chan, MD, provides a brief primer on this uncommon, heritable connective tissue disorder.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, March 15, 2021
• Docs and Fake News: Finding Our Way Out of the Echo Chamber   Interpretation of facts is one thing, but if doctors can't agree on a baseline set of facts, all is lost, says Dr F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, March 10, 2021
• Should We Soon Require Vaccine Passports?   Bioethicist Art Caplan discusses mandates and vaccine passports as critical next steps to getting back to normal.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 10, 2021
• COVID Positive After Two Vaccine Doses? What It Means   Drs Robert Glatter, Peter Antevy, Angela Rasmussen, and Nicole Iovine discuss COVID-19 vaccinations in the context of dosing schedules, variants, and the need for booster regimens.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, March 09, 2021
• Helping Parents and Children Deal With a Child's Limb Deformity My decision to accept the risks to reap the benefits of surgery is small potatoes compared with the decisions that the parents of a child born with a deformed lower extremity must face.
  Medscape Pediatrics, February 25, 2021
• What the NBA's Collaboration With Yale Reveals About COVID   The NBA was looking for help with COVID-19 surveillance. They found it in Nathan Grubaugh's team at Yale. Grubaugh talks with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese about that collaboration and more.
  Medscape, February 23, 2021
• Fired for Good Judgment a Sign of Physicians' Lost Respect The firing of a physician who made use of soon-to-expire COVID vaccine doses rather than flush them epitomizes the loss of physician autonomy and respect, warns Melissa Walton-Shirley.
  theheart.org on Medscape, February 23, 2021
• Medscape Orthopedist Lifestyle, Happiness & Burnout Report 2021 Medscape surveyed orthopedists about their lives before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, including how burnout and depression have affected their relationships, career, and happiness.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, February 19, 2021
• Surgeons Can Change. The Pandemic Made It Happen Faster NorthShore Health System in Chicago canceled 3400 elective surgeries in March 2020. Here' s what happened next.
  Medscape General Surgery, February 18, 2021
• Giant Leap for Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Interpretation Dr Aaron Holley reviews the new cardiopulmonary exercise testing reference equations recently published in CHEST.
  Medscape Critical Care, February 18, 2021