Psychiatry Perspective

• Let's Stop the Draconian Visiting Restrictions One physician's thoughts on how to loosen visitation restrictions responsibly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 27, 2020
• Bellevue Starts to Reopen After COVID Peak   After a month that felt like years, Bellevue hospital staff are starting to reform their daily routines in a changed world. Dr Danielle Ofri shares her insights.
  Medscape, May 27, 2020
• A COVID Commencement Speech: What New Docs Have Lost, Gained Restrictions due to the pandemic resulted in the cancellation of traditional medical school commencements. One speaker reflects on what new doctors gain from losing these important celebrations.
  Medscape Med Students, May 27, 2020
• COVID-19 and Mental Health Awareness Month May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the Mental Health Coalition has launched a campaign called #howareyoureally? to allow people to more genuinely share their feelings during the pandemic.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 26, 2020
• Happy 25th Birthday, Medscape, From Our Founder Medscape launched on May 22, 1995. It was the first site with a radical concept: anyone who registered would have free access to trusted information previously available only through subscriptions.
  Medscape, May 21, 2020
• Has the Pandemic 'Infected' Our Approach to Medicine? Changing long-standing protocols. Using unproven drugs. Targeting colleagues. Blame the COVID-19 'superinfection' for these changes in physicians' thinking, argues Vinay Prasad.
  Medscape Oncology, May 20, 2020
• Medscape Psychiatrist Compensation Report 2020
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 20, 2020
• Strategies for Treating Youth and Young Adult Anxiety Psychologist Anne Marie Albano, PhD, discusses how clinicians and parents can help "'problem-solve"' childhood anxiety and avoidance.
  May 19, 2020
• The Banana Peel of COVID-19 Research Many of the current COVID-19 datasets rely on nonrandom participation with significant potential for selection bias.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 19, 2020
• What Past Disasters Tell Us About COVID-19 and Substance Abuse As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, psychiatrist Lloyd Sederer worries for a country already facing rising rates of substance abuse.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, May 18, 2020
• Planning for a Psychiatric COVID-19–Positive Unit Three psychiatrists identify eight principles and critical decision points that can help inpatient units plan for the safe care of patients on a Psychiatric COVID-19–positive unit (PCU).
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 17, 2020
• The Mental Health Aftermath of COVID-19   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks to Columbia University psychiatrists Jeffrey Lieberman and Laurel S. Mayer about the mental health aftermath of the pandemic.
  WebMD, May 15, 2020
• COVID-19 Quarantine: Managing Pediatric Behavioral Issues Two experts offer guidance regarding several of the most common questions pediatricians hear concerning children's health, behavior, and development.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 15, 2020
• Medscape Physician Assistant Compensation Report 2020 Our first PA compensation survey reveals how much PAs earn across the country by specialty, work setting, education, and much more.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 15, 2020
• Voice Your Opinion: Medscape PA Compensation Report 2020 Tell us what you think about the findings of Medscape's first report on physician assistant compensation.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 14, 2020
• An Update From the Frontlines, With Dr Esther Choo   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Esther Choo about what's going on on the frontlines, the status of the PPE shortage, and how the reopening of society should be handled.
  WebMD, May 13, 2020
• COVID Fatigue Is Setting In An Ohio dermatologist laments the uncertainty that coronavirus has heaped upon his practice and everyday life. "Surely the way we practice medicine is going to change, and for a long while," he says.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, May 13, 2020
• Plan Now to Address the COVID-19 Mental Health Fallout A look ahead at how to prepare for the mental health manifestations of the coronavirus pandemic.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 13, 2020
• COVID-19 Data Dives: High Cost of Herd Immunity Proponents of 'herd immunity' strategies need to be upfront about what that means : a lot of illness and death.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 13, 2020
• Interpreting COVID Findings: Avoid These Dangerous Mistakes   Does hypertension cause COVID-19 death? Does smoking protect you? Dr F. Perry Wilson explains how to thoughtfully interpret observational data.
  Medscape, May 13, 2020