Internal Medicine Perspective

• May 20 2022 This Week in Cardiology   Ischemia vs anatomic testing for CAD, UK-TAVI trial, TAVI for AR? and post-PCI anti-thrombotics are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 20, 2022
• Best & Worst Places to Practice 2022 Some states offer lots of perks and temptations for physician practices, although each doctor has their own priorities that make some places more desirable.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 20, 2022
• Why I'm Offering DMPA to Patients With Uterine Fibroids   Dr Andrew Kaunitz reviews the effectiveness of DMPA in the treatment of the most common gynecologic tumors: uterine fibroids.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, May 20, 2022
• Management of Post-COVID Cardiac Symptoms   How primary care physicians can evaluate and counsel patients with persistent cardiovascular symptoms after COVID.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 20, 2022
• Can an NP Lose Their Job if a Doc 'Collaborator' Backs Away? A recent legal case exemplifies the difficulties posed by requirements in some states that nurse practitioners have a physician's oversight.
  Medscape Nurses, May 20, 2022
• How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain   Pain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain.
  Medscape, May 20, 2022
• Unintentional Lessons of Third-Year Clinical Rotations Between delivering babies, running codes, and managing diabetes, there is a lot to learn from clinical rotations that I know will contribute to my future role as a resident physician.
  Medscape Blogs, May 20, 2022
• Environmental Health Is Going to Get Very Personal Sometimes it seems that not much can be done to protect the environment, but there are steps we can take to lessen the impact on our personal health and protect that of our patients.
  Endocrine Society, May 19, 2022
• How to Make Visits Run More Smoothly and Be More Productive Some symptoms are so distressing and severe that symptomatic treatment is needed, but most aren't.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 19, 2022
• The PreserFlo MicroShunt: A Conversation With Dr Ike Ahmed Dr Patel interviews Iqbal "Ike" K. Ahmed, MD, about the PreserFlo MicroShunt, an 8-mm-long tube that is inserted into the eye to help lower eye pressure in glaucoma.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, May 19, 2022
• The Latest in Movement Disorder Research   This year's AAN meeting highlighted differences in outcomes based on patients' backgrounds.
  Medscape Neurology, May 19, 2022
• Episode 3: Intermediate-Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia   Drs Gail Roboz and Pinkal Desai discuss intermediate-risk acute myeloid leukemia.
  Medscape, May 19, 2022
• Should Docs Still See Patients After They Enter the Boardroom? Many physicians are choosing to leave medicine, but these two physicians tell why doctors shouldn't cut all clinical ties.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 19, 2022
• The Stigma Associated With Mental Illness and Antidepressants Let's have an open conversation about mental illness and antidepressants.
  Medscape Blogs, May 19, 2022
• At What Point Does Comfort Care Become Murder?   Drs Robert Glatter, Ferdinando Mirarchi, Lewis Nelson, and Thaddeus Pope discuss a recent legal case and how it may affect end-of-life care moving forward.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, May 18, 2022
• Colorectal Cancer e-Tumor Boards: Case 2: Colorectal Liver Metastases   The case focuses on a 32-year-old man whose colonoscopy showed a non-bleeding mass about 2-3 cm above the anal verge with some symptoms of mild partial obstruction. His staging imaging demonstrates multiple liver lesions, a mid-rectal thickening, and some small pulmonary nodules.
  Medscape, May 18, 2022
• The Mental Effects of Growing Up With a Hoarder Medscape interviews psychologist Dr Andrew Gulick about the long-term mental health risks of growing up in a house with a hoarder.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 18, 2022
• A1c, Blood Pressure Fluctuations Predict Fracture Risk Dr Plotzker reviews new studies linking glycemic control and blood pressure variations to fractures in older populations.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 18, 2022
• Skin Testing May Help Detect Movement Disorders   Drs Andrew Wilner and Christopher Gibbons discuss recent data on alpha-synuclein in the context of synucleinopathies presented at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology meeting.
  Medscape Neurology, May 18, 2022
• One Million COVID Cases a Day? We're Already There   Perry Wilson explains why we are way, way underestimating the number of COVID cases in this country.
  Medscape, May 18, 2022