Internal Medicine Perspective

• Clinicians Are 'Sent Into War With Pool Noodles,' ICU Doc Says   'Usually in our clinical practice, you feel confident about a lot of the therapies that you're considering,' Angela Rogers, MD, said. But everything in the ICU is different with COVID-19.
  Medscape, April 02, 2020
• Topol: US Betrays Healthcare Workers in Coronavirus Disaster Many US healthcare workers started this year already suffering from burnout, but the worst was yet to come.
  Medscape, March 30, 2020
• COVID-19: ASTCT Provides Interim Guidelines for Transplantation The guidelines for the care of hematopoietic cell transplantation focus on diagnostic and treatment considerations, evaluation of patients prior to starting HCT therapy, and cell donor evaluation.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2020
• Coronavirus in Context: Eric Topol Explains Emerging Research WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Eric Topol about how he interprets preliminary COVID-19 research making the rounds on social media and the role of technology in curbing the pandemic.
  Medscape, March 25, 2020
• EAU 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from EAU 2020
  Medscape Urology, March 24, 2020
• NKF 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from NKF 2020
  Medscape Nephrology, March 23, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't in COVID-19: Centenarian Survives, High-Risk Blood Types Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, March 20, 2020
• How to Respond to COVID-19 Deniers A physician outlines the three most common arguments and how she responds to them.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, March 20, 2020
• COVID-19 and PPE: Some of Us Will Die A storm is coming, and the new fear is the shortage of personal protective equipment, warns John Mandrola, MD, of the COVID19 pandemic as some hospitals bar physicians from complaining.
  Medscape, March 20, 2020
• Fixing the ED Goes Beyond 'Up or Out'   Dr Gina Siddiqui speaks with Dr Robert Glatter about her recent New York Times essay detailing a typical day in the emergency department.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, March 19, 2020
• ISN 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ISN 2020
  Medscape Nephrology, March 17, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't: COVID-19 Drug, Squatting, Laser Ultrasound Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, March 13, 2020
• Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Trim the Nonsense? 'From the beginning of this pandemic, I have felt a smallness to much of what I do in electrophysiology,' admits John Mandrola, MD.
  Medscape, March 12, 2020
• This 'Will Change My Practice' on Alcohol Use Disorder   The Curbsiders share the practice-changing tips they learned from interviewing an expert on alcohol use disorder.
  The Curbsiders, March 09, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't: Alzheimer's Acid, Mourning & Melanoma, Preterm Epigenetics Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, March 06, 2020
• AAAAI 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAAAI 2020
  Medscape Allergy & Immunology, March 05, 2020
• Avoid Inflammatory Diets to Combat Diverticulitis   A recent prospective study gives us plenty of reason to discuss dietary interventions with our patients, says Dr David Johnson.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 05, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't: Bladder Brewery, Mouse Diabetes Cure, Brain Trauma Tests Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, February 28, 2020
• So Wrong That Trump Is Blocking the Gate to Coronavirus Info, Says Ethicist It's flat-out wrong that medical and health information should have to go through Vice President Pence rather than coming straight from HHS, says bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan, PhD.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, February 28, 2020
• Hostile Culture 'Makes Worse Doctors'   A new study 'brings the numbers ' about the mistreatment of medical trainees.
  Medscape, February 26, 2020