Residents Perspective & Journal Articles

• Travel Bans: The Latest Security Theater Partial travel bans discriminate and may drive the truth underground.
  Medscape Blogs, December 03, 2021
• IDF 2021 100 Years of Insulin, but Millions Still Without Access   As we celebrate a century of insulin, we should not forget that many around the world can't afford this life-saving treatment.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, December 02, 2021
• Mobile App Usage Among Dermatology Residents in America This survey highlights the increasing role of mobile apps in dermatology residency. How does usage vary among different demographic groups and year of residency?
  Cutis, December 02, 2021
• How to Balance Family Life as an Ob/Gyn How the role of an ob hospitalist integrates caring for obstetric patients while also caring for one's family.
  Medscape Blogs, December 01, 2021
• We Physicians Must Pull Together as a Knowledge Community A new commentary is calling for clinicians to come together ― and notes that "kindness and respect for patients starts with kindness and respect for one another as colleagues."
  Medscape Psychiatry, November 30, 2021
• The Best Liver Tests in Primary Care   The Curbsiders share pearls from an expert hepatologist on which tests to order during first-round testing for a patient with a possible liver injury or disorder.
  The Curbsiders, November 30, 2021
• The Rittenhouse Case And Privilege in Healthcare The healthcare system, like the legal system, often fails communities of color. A cardiologist dares to hope for meaningful change despite the fact this failure is a feature, not a bug.
  Medscape Blogs, November 30, 2021
• Omicron: What the Data Really Show   Dr F Perry Wilson summarizes the hard facts about the latest SARS CoV-2 variant, Omicron— transmissibility, pathogenicity, and immune escape potential.
  Medscape, November 29, 2021
• Question the 'Lab Leak' Theory. But Don't Call It a Conspiracy. If there's one thing the pandemic has taught us, labels get in the way of facts and make the truth that much harder to find.
  Knowable Magazine, November 29, 2021
• Grit and Gratitude: Pandemic Thanksgiving Reflections A young doctor reflects on what she is most grateful for this Thanksgiving: her grit.
  Medscape Blogs, November 29, 2021
• COVID-19 Hospitalizations Among Children and Adolescents Coinciding with increased circulation of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, COVID-19-associated hospitalization among children and adolescents rose nearly five-fold during late June-mid-August 2021.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, November 26, 2021
• The Gender Pay Gap, Care Economy, and Mental Health How the gender pay gap is affecting women's mental health.
  Medscape Blogs, November 24, 2021
• Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Picking the Best Path   Sandip Patel, MD, advises clinicians early in their careers that choosing exemplary care of patients with non-small cell lung cancer can be like finding the right path on a map.
  Medscape, November 23, 2021
• Take a Break to Boost Productivity Resting won't kill you, but not resting will end up killing your productivity. How one oncologist learned the hard way.
  Medscape Blogs, November 23, 2021
• Strategies to Disrupt COVID-19 Transmission at a University What strategies may help reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in university settings?
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 23, 2021
• Molecular Testing in mNSCLC: Digging a Little Deeper Makes All the Difference   Dr Patel notes that in NSCLC, "we have to become increasingly sophisticated in our ability to interpret molecular information" and use next-generation sequencing to "dig a little deeper for certain patient scenarios."
  Medscape, November 22, 2021
• The Parallels Between the HIV and COVID-19 Pandemics   David A. Wohl, MD, considers how the development of prevention and treatment strategies for COVID-19 is the history of the evolution of HIV prevention and treatment strategies compressed into a few months.
  Medscape, November 22, 2021
• Control Cash Flow: 10 Tips to Put Your Money To Work Not sure what to do with your extra cash flow? Don’t let it all waste away in a low-interest account. Here are 10 smart ways to put your cash to better use.
  Medscape Blogs, November 22, 2021
• Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Nursing Home Residents This study reveals that SARS-CoV-2 symptoms in nursing home residents and staff may be insufficiently recognized, and that presymptomatic residents and staff may contribute to the spread of the virus.
  Age and Ageing, November 19, 2021
• Diagnosing Acute Coronary Occlusion in a Paced Patient Dr Amal Mattu discusses a recent study on using the modified Sgarbossa criteria for diagnosing acute coronary occlusion in the presence of a ventricular paced rhythm.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, November 18, 2021