Psychiatry Perspective

• Can Alzheimer's Prevention Work via Telemedicine?   Dr Richard Isaacson and nurse practitioner Hollie Hristov on how they've adapted formerly in-person prevention efforts during the pandemic.
  Medscape Neurology, August 05, 2020
• 6 Nonclinical Careers for Physicians Looking to Switch Many physicians are considering a career change but still want to put their medical knowledge and training to use. This MD offers some suggestions.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, August 05, 2020
• Lessons Lost: How 'Outbreak Culture' Is Shaping the COVID Response Many of the warnings issued after the response to Ebola went unheeded -- and those mistakes have repeated themselves in the world's response to coronavirus.
  Medscape Public Health, August 04, 2020
• Will Alzheimer's Research Ever Return to Normal?   Drs Ronald Petersen and John Morris discuss the effects of COVID-19 on Alzheimer's research and drug trials.
  Medscape Neurology, August 04, 2020
• Two Decades in Oncology Don't Afford You Immunity to Grief In this moving essay, oncologist Don Dizon reflects on the loss of a close family member to cancer.
  Medscape Oncology, July 31, 2020
• COVID-19 and the 'Echo Pandemic' of Suicide and Mental Illness Projections show a dire road ahead, given an unprecedented moment of converging crises. Drs Lorenzo Norris and Roger McIntyre discuss how we might avoid it.
  Medscape Psychiatry, July 30, 2020
• We're Missing Kids With ASD: Strategies to Improve Screening A recent study found that tools used to screen for ASD provided less than optimal results. Kate Wallis, MD, discusses strategies to improve identification.
  CHOP Expert Commentary, July 29, 2020
• How a Carolina Healthcare Team Built a COVID Hospital From Scratch Talking with Dr Douglas Brent McQuaid about the serendipitous circumstances that allowed for the creation of a new hospital in the middle of a pandemic.
  Medscape Neurology, July 28, 2020
• A Rheumatologist Who Briefly Became a COVID Hospitalist Rheumatologist Karmela Chan shares her experiences working as a COVID hospitalist.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, July 27, 2020
• COVID-19: When to Wear a Mask and When You Don't Have To   Dr Art Caplan says there are right times and wrong times to wear a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 27, 2020
• Underprotected Clinicians: 'We Are Tired of Advocating'   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Esther Choo about the stress and exhaustion that healthcare workers are experiencing during the pandemic, leading to burnout.
  WebMD, July 24, 2020
• What Docs Hate: Every Specialty Has Its Thing A recent lively discussion on Twitter encouraged clinicians in all specialties to note the one thing that most gets their hackles up. Some of them will surprise you.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 24, 2020
• Dr Clifton Meador Offers Pearls for Practice   Dr George Lundberg reviews the latest pithy principles for physicians from a prolific author.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 23, 2020
• Medscape Psychiatrist Debt and Net Worth Report 2020 Medscape's Psychiatrist Debt and Net Worth Report outlines psychiatrists' earnings, savings, expenses, and how they manage finances.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, July 22, 2020
• Keep Our Controversial Statues: We Can Learn From Them   Dr Art Caplan discusses the removal of historic statues and suggests what can be done to use these monuments to learn from the past.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 20, 2020
• Fauci to Medscape: 'We're Gonna Get Through It'   In a discussion with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese, Anthony Fauci describes how we'll make it through the pandemic as a country and scientific community.
  Medscape, July 17, 2020
• COVID-19, Police Reform, and Fixing a Broken Mental Health System   Lloyd Sederer talks with political scientist Norm Ornstein about how politics has degraded our response to COVID-19 and serious mental illness, as well as a proven approach to police reform.
  Columbia University Psychiatry, July 16, 2020
• Does Less Medical Care Mean Better Care? A fellow cardiologist comes to the defense of New York Times contributor Sandeep Jauhar, who was castigated on social media for suggesting that most people were fine with fewer doctor visits.
  theheart.org on Medscape, July 16, 2020
• Women Physicians 2020: The Issues They Care About More than 3000 women physicians described their key concerns, including career, parenting, and burnout.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, July 15, 2020
• Hope in the Time of COVID: Reflections on the Pandemic's Aftermath What can we expect in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic? Healthcare workers have lost family, colleagues, and jobs. But perhaps there is a silver lining to all of this after all, says Dr Plotzker.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, July 14, 2020