Gastroenterology 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
• Three More Things We Do for No Reason in Pediatrics   The Cribsiders share their favorite easy-to-implement pearls on CAP, cellulitis, and constipation in kids.
  The Cribsiders, April 30, 2021
• Counseling Adolescents With Obesity: Lead With the Evidence Dr William F. Balistreri comments on the data surrounding the consequences of obesity in young people and the most effective interventions.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 23, 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
• Lessons Learned During COVID-19 Will Help Us Better Treat HCV In figuring out how to practice during a pandemic, we may have also learned new skills for monitoring and treating patients with HCV, says Dr William Balistreri.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 21, 2021
• Freefall: How Skydiving Is Like Cancer Surgery   Cancer surgery is filled with moments of fear, even for doctors. Our cameras follow as an oncologist confronts this anxiety in the second episode of our video series 'The Oncologists'.
  Medscape Oncology, April 21, 2021
• J&J Vaccine: CVST, VITT, and What Physicians Should Do   What to tell patients, what to watch for, what tests to order, and how to manage a potential thrombotic event.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, April 20, 2021
• Losing Both Parents During COVID: A Physician's 'Unwitnessed Grief' Melissa Walton-Shirley quit full-time practice to help care for her elderly parents. That they would both die during a pandemic when close comfort and mourning rituals were not allowed magnified her loss.
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 19, 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
• Organ Harvesting's Troubled Past — and Complicated Present With the rise of organ transplantation came difficult ethical questions on race, economics, and the meaning of life.
  Undark, April 15, 2021
• Experts Recommend Key Modifications to High-Resolution Manometry An updated classification system reshapes the diagnosis of esophageal motility disorders.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 13, 2021
• When Medical Messages Are Lost in Translation   Dr David Kerr discusses examples of medical communication being lost in translation.
  Medscape Oncology, April 13, 2021
• Please Don't Use the Word 'Brittle' With Diabetes The word 'brittle' in the context of diabetes is unscientific, unhelpful, and potentially harmful, says Miriam E. Tucker, a Medscape contributing writer who lives with type 1 diabetes.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, April 12, 2021
• How COVID-19 Could Change Healthcare   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Lloyd B. Minor, MD, Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine, about the influence of COVID-19 and technology on the future of health care.
  WebMD, April 09, 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
• Improve Doctor-Patient Relationships With This One Question After personal tragedy struck, Dr Doug Lake found himself more closely considering his patients' experiences, completely changing how he interacted with them.
  Medscape, April 05, 2021
• Why Long COVID Worries Me Researchers and clinicians focused on long-haul COVID or postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection should remember our oath to first, do no harm.
  Medscape, April 05, 2021
• Roberto Burioni on Conquering COVID and Charming the Skeptics   Virologist-author Roberto Burioni talks about the relevance of variants, why vaccines are our ticket out of this nightmare, and how best to deal with science and vaccine skeptics.
  Medscape, April 02, 2021
• Defending My Right to Mask In looking at common masking practices in Asia, Dr George Lundberg found a model for how to care for our fellow citizens here in the United States.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, April 01, 2021