Perspective

• EADV 2020 Featured News
  October 28, 2020
• ASTRO 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ASTRO 2020
  Medscape Oncology, October 28, 2020
• The Remarkable Value of Thinking Broadly: A COVID-19 Trifecta   Social scientist and technology expert Zeynep Tufekci has been prescient about COVID-19 transmission. Eric Topol talks with her about how she does it and why such approaches make the difference.
  Medscape, October 28, 2020
• Tips for Conducting a Virtual Neurologic Exam   Dr Stephen Krieger shares tips and tricks for testing gait, balance, strength, and other neurologic features over a video call.
  Medscape Neurology, October 28, 2020
• Vitamin D for COVID? We've Been Burned Before   What, if any, is the link between COVID-19 and vitamin D? Dr F. Perry Wilson digs into the data.
  Medscape, October 28, 2020
• Highlights From IDWeek 2020: Fauci on COVID-19   Paul Auwaerter discusses highlights from Anthony Fauci's talk during the 24 hours of the COVID-19 Chasing the Sun event at IDWeek 2020.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, October 27, 2020
• For COVID-19 Vaccines, ACIP Will Be a Critical Gatekeeper   Eric Topol and vaccine expert Paul Offit have a one-on-one to discuss where we are regarding the development, authorization, and/or licensure of vaccines to prevent COVID-19.
  Medscape, October 27, 2020
• Claims About False COVID Deaths Are Reprehensible President Trump and others in the administration have claimed that physicians and hospitals are falsely attributing deaths to COVID in order to increase reimbursements. Here's why that is nonsense.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, October 27, 2020
• Stop the Benzo: It's Worth the Screaming The potential benefits of benzodiazepines among older adults are simply outweighed by the risks. But is stopping them worth the fight?
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 27, 2020
• How Is Your 'Zoom-side Manner'?   Half a year into our experiment in telepsychiatry, Dr Drew Ramsey reflects on what we've lost and gained, and how we can do better.
  Medscape Psychiatry, October 27, 2020
• Let's Not Get Too Excited About Having a Vaccine Really Soon   Dr Art Caplan discusses the known COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing and distribution considerations and the unknown timeline for public access.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, October 27, 2020
• Is Ketamine Living Up to the Promise for Depression?   Columbia psychiatrist Lloyd Sederer talks with his colleague J. John Mann, a leading ketamine researcher and clinician, about the promise surrounding this treatment and the questions that remain.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, October 26, 2020
• Tell Us What You Think: RN, LPN Compensation Report, 2020 We'd like to hear what you think of this year's compensation report findings.
  Medscape Nurses, October 26, 2020
• Establishing a Strong and Lasting Mentor/Mentee Relationship It is important to do some background work and ask around about potential mentors. Often, resident colleagues and fellows have a good sense of current projects and which faculty work well with learners.
  The Hospitalist, October 26, 2020
• Acute Pharyngitis: Tips From the Author of the Centor Criteria   Hosts of the popular pediatric podcast The Cribsiders preview their discussion with Dr Robert Centor, creator of 'eponymous' criteria for risk stratification of bacterial pharyngitis.
  Medscape Pediatrics, October 26, 2020
• When It's Assumed That You're the Cleaner, Not a Cardiologist   Backstage at a cardiology conference, Michelle O'Donoghue was handed the dirty coffee mugs; the AV tech assumed she was the cleaner and not one of the late-breaking trial discussants.
  theheart.org on Medscape, October 26, 2020
• Oct 23 2020 This Week in Cardiology   COVID, tocilizumab, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cerebral microbleeds, and surrogate endpoints are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week’s podcast
  theheart.org on Medscape, October 23, 2020
• Pandemic Epiphany: Medicine Isn't Worth It The pandemic has many doctors reconsidering whether a life in medicine is worth all the missed soccer games and family dinners.
  Medscape Oncology, October 23, 2020
• What Is LADA and How Should We Treat It?   A new consensus statement on LADA, or latent autoimmune diabetes in the adult, attempts to define this perplexing disease and give guidance on management.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, October 23, 2020
• Opinion: Scoundrels, Saints, and the Fiction of Individual Genius Science would be even greater if we reckoned with its racist and misogynist past, reclaimed its forgotten players, and acknowledged how science is collectively done.
  Undark, October 23, 2020