Pediatrics Perspective

• Relieve Physician Stress Through Financial Planning Many stressed physicians can make practical changes to achieve better work-life balance. Financial planning may provide the answers you need to decrease stress and achieve greater work and personal satisfaction.
  Medscape Blogs, July 23, 2021
• CGM in Hospitals as Standard of Care: What Have We Learned?   Isn't glucose yet another vital sign? Dr Athena Philis-Tsimikas argues that CGM as standard of care in the hospital allows for better management of patients with diabetes.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, July 22, 2021
• 25 Best Vacation Ideas for Doctors: Popular Spots or Away From the Crowds? Everyone's clamoring for a change of scenery. Whether you want to visit popular destinations or stay away from crowds, here are some terrific choices.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, July 21, 2021
• Olympics: Sports Medicine Docs Discuss Vaccines, Logistics   Sports med docs discuss COVID vaccination in athletes and the logistics of testing and contact tracing in the midst of people with mixed vaccination statuses during busy schedules at the Tokyo Olympics.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, July 21, 2021
• Vaccine Mandates, Passports, and Kant Houston Methodist Hospital in June 2021 enforced an April mandate that all its employees, about 26,000 of them, must be vaccinated against COVID-19. In the following weeks, many other large healthcare systems adopted a similar employer mandate.
  Medscape Pediatrics, July 20, 2021
• Even the Vaccinated Can Still Get COVID-19 Vaccines will end the pandemic, but they are not sufficient on their own. Why one infectious diseases expert thinks we need to keep being cautious.
  Medscape Blogs, July 19, 2021
• The Febrile Infant: New AAP Guidance Dr Bill Basco reviews new recommendations that may provide more leeway in evaluating fever in very young, well-appearing infants.
  Medscape Pediatrics, July 19, 2021
• Does Violating HIPAA on Social Media Warrant Getting Fired?   Dr Alok S. Patel discusses and provides examples of inadvertent, well-intentioned HIPAA violations on social media.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, July 16, 2021
• The COVID-19 Child Pioneers A pediatrician and father reflects on a parent's choice to enroll their children in the COVID vaccine trials and finds a historical parallel.
  Medscape Blogs, July 15, 2021
• Where You Save for Retirement Is as Important as How Much The types of accounts that make up your portfolio matter. If you’re not tax-diversified, you could end up having less to spend than you planned. Find out why.
  Medscape Blogs, July 15, 2021
• Ivermectin for COVID: How Do We Know What to Believe?   A meta-analysis of randomized trials of ivermectin suggests protection against COVID-19, but could there be problems with the study? Dr F. Perry Wilson digs in.
  Medscape, July 14, 2021
• The Child in Shock: Assessment and Treatment   The Cribsiders share pearls on the recognition and initial management of pediatric shock, including why hypotension is a late sign.
  The Cribsiders, July 14, 2021
• Side Gigs: A Growing Trend as Physicians Seek Extra Income Medscape's national survey shows how many physicians have side gigs, what they're doing, how much they earn, and their side-gig goals.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, July 14, 2021
• Many Years Between Beasts Her original armor is too small for her now, but her heart knows how to join the battle.
  Medscape Blogs, July 14, 2021
• Even ID Specialists Can Get Tick-borne Diseases Tiny arachnids are rearing their heads once again. This infectious disease doctor finds out the hard way how dangerous ticks can be.
  Medscape Blogs, July 13, 2021
• Advice to My Intern Self Everything is a learning experience. Here are 11 tips for new and current medical trainees.
  Medscape Blogs, July 12, 2021
• Are Free Beer and Donuts the Way to Get More People Vaccinated?   Bioethicist Art Caplan discusses incentivizing vaccines and healthier habits in general.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 12, 2021
• EAACI 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from EAACI 2021
  Medscape Allergy & Immunology, July 09, 2021
• To End Burnout, Doctors Must Change the Culture of Medicine   The culture of medicine is an invisible force with the strength of gravity that keeps the profession stuck, Robert Pearl says. To move forward, physicians have to own their role and drive change.
  Medscape, July 09, 2021
• ASCO 2021 ASCO Data Confirm Standard of Care for Cervical, Ovarian Cancer   Dr Maurie Markman describes two large phase 3 trials that 'clearly establish' the existing standard of care for cervical and ovarian cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, July 09, 2021