Pediatrics Perspective

• Keeping Kids Mentally Healthy During a Pandemic Somatic complaints, sleep disturbances, acting out: The range of behaviors you can expect kids to exhibit will vary dramatically. The correct advice to parents is essential.
  CHOP Expert Commentary, April 08, 2020
• Do COVID-19 Vent Protocols Need a Second Look?   How what Cameron Kyle-Sidell, MD, saw in an NYC ICU prompted him to re-examine COVID-19 ventilator protocols
  WebMD, April 06, 2020
• Don't Endanger Your Patients: Stop Allergy Immunotherapy Now A medical society recently published recommendations to continue allergen immunotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Is this the right decision?
  Medscape Allergy & Immunology, April 06, 2020
• It's Tick Season: 5 Things to Know About Lyme Disease Tests Prepare for tick season by reviewing these five things to know about Lyme disease testing.
  CDC Expert Commentary, April 06, 2020
• Is COVID-19 Leading to a Mental Illness Pandemic? People living through this crisis are experiencing trauma.
  Medscape Psychiatry, April 03, 2020
• NYU Med Student Joins COVID Fight: 'Time to Step Up' New York med schools asked fourth-year students to graduate early and volunteer to help battle COVID. One student discusses how he weighed the potential life-or-death decision to join the front lines.
  Medscape Med Students, April 02, 2020
• COVID-19 Is Making Moral Injury to Physicians Much Worse Even before the coronavirus outbreak, physicians struggled with the 'moral injury' rampant in healthcare, causing them to provide care under some near-impossible conditions. What's the situation now?
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 01, 2020
• COVID-19 Death Predictions: What Do We Need to Know?   Predicting the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 is necessary for driving public health interventions, but where do these predictions come from?
  Medscape, March 31, 2020
• Advice for Lessening Your Pandemic Anxiety Dr Jeffrey Lieberman on how 'the worried well' and those with established mental illness can navigate this unprecedented moment.
  Medscape Psychiatry, March 31, 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 Data, Fast and Furious: 'We Need to Adapt'   Several weeks after Dr Wilson's video on COVID-19 epidemiology, he takes another look at the data. Where are we, what can we learn, and what should we change moving forward?
  Medscape, March 30, 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
• How to Start Doing Telemedicine Now (In the COVID-19 Crisis) Many doctors now feel that televisits are the best way to conduct patient visits, for health safety issues. A physician tells how to get started.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 25, 2020
• The Business Case for Hiring a Nurse Practitioner How might hiring a nurse practitioner affect your practice's bottom line?
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 24, 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
• Fecal Evidence of COVID-19 Raises Transmission Concerns   Dr David Johnson explains why it's not just the respiratory tract we need to consider when trying to stem the spread of COVID-19.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 18, 2020
• Where Are the Tests? COVID-19 Sidelines Clinicians A physician remains self-quarantined, unable to work, while she waits to be tested for the novel coronavirus.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, March 17, 2020
• High Achievers on What Their Failures Taught Them In medicine there are many doors: medical school, residency, possibly fellowship. And when one door closes, another opens.
  Medscape Oncology, March 17, 2020
• 'I Refuse to See a Doc Who Supports THAT Political Figure!'   Dr Art Caplan discusses whether patients can refuse to see a doctor with conflicting political views.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 03, 2020
• After the Match: 5 Big Mistakes to Avoid What happens after Match Day can be just important as the events leading up to it. Here are five of the biggest mistakes to watch out for after you match and the steps you can take to avoid them
  Medscape Med Students, March 03, 2020