Hospital Medicine Perspective

• Should We Always Offer CPR? The case of an elderly unconscious patient prompts this doctor to question why CPR is the default strategy and brings to mind the hero of a Hemingway short story.
  theheart.org on Medscape, January 25, 2022
• COVID Is a Disaster. It Could Have Been Worse.   F. Perry Wilson muses on how the COVID pandemic might have been even worse. What if kids had been more vulnerable than adults? What if the vaccines hadn't worked?
  Medscape, January 25, 2022
• This Doc Still Supports NP/PA Led Care … With Caveats The rise in nurse practitioner- and physician assistant-led care will not be undone, according to this doctor who sees it as a good thing as long as training and experience are not neglected.
  Medscape, January 24, 2022
• Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2022: Stress, Anxiety, and Anger Physicians had a rough year in 2021, with many feeling more burned out and stressed than they ever have before. Here's what more than 13,000 doctors had to say.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, January 21, 2022
• Testing and Treatment for COVID-19 and Influenza Given the similarities between symptoms of influenza and COVID-19, distinguishing between the two diseases when both are spreading in the community is challenging.
  CDC Expert Commentary, January 19, 2022
• Is COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Just Needle Phobia?   F. Perry Wilson asks why so many people object to vaccines, yet they accept other medicines without a hue and cry.
  Medscape, January 19, 2022
• Should the Unvaccinated Pay More for Their Healthcare?   Professor Art Caplan debates whether unvaccinated individuals should have higher insurance premiums.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, January 18, 2022
• Medscape Physician Lifestyle & Happiness Report 2022 More than 10,000 physicians in various specialties told Medscape how they are faring amid the global pandemic.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, January 14, 2022
• COVID-19: Ethics and the Unvaccinated   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Director, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University, about the ethical issues around criticizing and triaging the unvaccinated in hospitals.
  WebMD, January 14, 2022
• NPs, PAs Say Stop Attacks and Support Healthcare Colleagues Leaders of PA and NP organizations say comments on PAs should focus on quality patient care, not name-change semantics.
  Letters to the Editor, January 14, 2022
• I Took COVID Precautions and Still Got a Breakthrough Infection One researcher's experience is evidence of just how vulnerable we still are in this pandemic.
  Medscape Blogs, January 14, 2022
• 5 Things: Lessons I've Learned From Dance Medical student Marshall Hall reflects on how his love of dance has shaped him as a person.
  Medscape, January 13, 2022
• State of Emergency -- The No Judgment Zone   "We have this privilege of being a witness to these unbelievable moments in people's lives, and many of those are not so great." An EM physician allows a filmmaker to shadow her in the trauma ward. Watch now.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, January 11, 2022
• Testing Could Help End the Pandemic, if Only We Had Tests Is the lack of readily available testing the biggest public health failure of the COVID era?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, January 11, 2022
• Ketamine Learns a New Trick   A proof-of-concept study offers hope for long-term dual clinical benefit in depression and alcohol use disorder.
  Medscape, January 11, 2022
• Retiring in 2022? Don't Overlook These 10 Financial To-Dos If you're retiring in 2022, make this transition work to your financial advantage. Check out these 10 important tips.
  Medscape Blogs, January 10, 2022
• PA Name Change Bad for Patients and the Profession Severing the relationship between PAs and physicians may leave PAs unprepared and performing outside their comfort level while risking ostracizing physician allies, states president of physician group.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 07, 2022
• The Undervalued and Forgotten Workforce: Physician Residents Doctors in training don't get the credit they deserve as frontline workers in the pandemic, putting in longer hours and not earning as much as other medical team members.
  Medscape Med Students, January 07, 2022
• My Favorite Physical Exam Pearls For those seeking to increase their comfort with conducting the physical exam, Dr Douglas Paauw details several methods that he has found helpful to use in practice.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, January 06, 2022
• What Is Up With Suboxone? The medication everyone wants to know more about.
  Medscape Blogs, January 06, 2022