Ophthalmology Perspective

• Medscape APRN Compensation Report 2020 Find out how much APRNs are being paid and whether their earnings are static or increasing.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 20, 2020
• Life, Death, and Painful Dilemmas: Ethics 2020 Medscape looked at how physician ethics have changed in the past decade. More than 5000 physicians told us how they feel about the critical issues they have to deal with and the choices they make.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 13, 2020
• AAO 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAO 2020
  Medscape Ophthalmology, November 13, 2020
• Applying to Residency in a Pandemic: 5 Virtual Interview Tips Virtual residency interviews present a unique challenge. These five strategies to improve the content of your answers will be valuable long after the pandemic is over.
  Medscape Med Students, November 12, 2020
• How Face Masks May Be Hurting Doctors' Bedside Manner Face masks are changing doctor-patient interactions, possibly for the worse. Current and future doctors must consider how to prevent further straining this important relationship.
  Medscape Med Students, November 11, 2020
• Dependent No Longer? PAs Contemplate Their Future What will happen to PA scope of practice when the pandemic is over?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 09, 2020
• Why Medscape Worked: A Look Back At its founding, Medscape gambled that an open internet that empowered users to make their own decisions about what to read would democratize medicine. Here's why physicians bought in.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 05, 2020
• Industry Payments Go Mostly to KOLs -- Does It Matter?   Recent studies show that key opinion leaders receive half of all industry payments given to physicians. Are they being bought, or could there be another explanation?
  Medscape, November 04, 2020
• How to Combat Post-keratoplasty Infections Isn't Always Clear Dr Christopher Rapuano explores why there is still no consensus on obtaining fungal rim cultures on all endothelial keratoplasty surgeries.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, November 03, 2020
• Study Showing Masks Aren't Harmful May Do More Harm Than Good The quest to debunk irrational beliefs is foolish and may exacerbate mistrust in science rather than persuade the mask doubters, says John Mandrola, MD, about a recent research letter in JAMA.
  Medscape, November 03, 2020
• For COVID-19 Vaccines, ACIP Will Be a Critical Gatekeeper   Eric Topol and vaccine expert Paul Offit have a one-on-one to discuss where we are regarding the development, authorization, and/or licensure of vaccines to prevent COVID-19.
  Medscape, October 27, 2020
• Claims About False COVID Deaths Are Reprehensible President Trump and others in the administration have claimed that physicians and hospitals are falsely attributing deaths to COVID in order to increase reimbursements. Here's why that is nonsense.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, October 27, 2020
• Medical Student Life & Education Report 2020 We surveyed current students regarding key factors affecting their education. From the COVID-19 pandemic to harassment and bias, the next generation of physicians weighs in on the challenges they face.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, October 23, 2020
• 'It Was Like Seeing a Disparity Built Right Before My Eyes' "When you're Black and you're a doctor, there is no badge big enough to make people realize you're a doctor."
  Medscape Dermatology, October 19, 2020
• COVID-19 Strengthens the Case for Same-Day Bilateral Cataract Surgery The many advantages of immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery have only been made clearer during the pandemic.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, October 08, 2020
• Why I Chose to Be a DO -- and Not an MD The White House physician is a DO, which has led some in the press to question his qualifications.
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 06, 2020
• Trump Got Therapies You Wouldn't Get -- And You're Better Off   The expectation is that a VIP would get special treatment when hospitalized, but it might actually harm the patient. Sometimes it's good to be a nobody, says Dr F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, October 06, 2020
• EURETINA 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from EURETINA 2020
  Medscape Ophthalmology, October 02, 2020
• Does Residual Fluid Matter in Wet AMD? Dr Sophie Bakri surveys the data on how fluid presence and type affect visual outcomes after treat-and-extend anti-VEGF therapy.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, October 01, 2020
• Two 'Wonderful Advances' in CGM: The Dexcom G6 Pro and Libre 2   Dr Anne Peters reviews two new continuous glucose monitoring systems: the Dexcom G6 Pro and Freestyle Libre 2.
  Endocrine Society, September 29, 2020