Medical Students Perspective

• Getting a COVID Vaccine -- Trial Participant Shares What It's Like   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Kelvin Phillips, who is participating in a 2-year COVID-19 vaccine trial, about his experience and why he is taking part.
  WebMD, December 04, 2020
• A COVID-19 and Diabetes Update From Anne Peters   How are patients faring with the changes to diabetes care during the pandemic? Dr Anne Peters gives an update and highlights areas that need more focus.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, December 04, 2020
• Pandemic Shaming Can Backfire. Here's a Better Way We can’t expect people to avoid risks entirely. Instead, we should embrace the policy of harm reduction.
  Undark, December 03, 2020
• Health Disparities in Dermatology: Making a Change   Drs Candrice Heath, Susan Taylor, and Lynn McKinley-Grant discuss health disparities in dermatology that were brought to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic and how these disparities are starting to be addressed.
  Medscape Dermatology, December 03, 2020
• AHA 2020 The Duty to Inform: Be Galileo on COVID-19 Melissa Walton-Shirley sees parallels between the 16th-century mathematician and the work of modern-day healthcare workers to rebut COVID denialism.
  theheart.org on Medscape, December 03, 2020
• Advancing Healthcare During the Pandemic and Beyond Healthcare has benefited from the pandemic in three ways, say Kaiser Permanente's CEO and WebMD's CMO.
  Medscape Public Health, December 02, 2020
• How Twitter Amplifies My Doctor and Human Voice Dr Chan discusses why she chose to go public on social media and how she finds it professionally and personally rewarding.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, December 02, 2020
• Which Antidiabetic Drug Class is Most Renoprotective? In a clash of the antidiabetic drug titans, which class demonstrates the most renoprotection?
  Medscape Nephrology, December 02, 2020
• How Much Does Marijuana Impair Driving?   A recent study tested how people drive under the influence of marijuana. 'DUI is still DUI,' says Dr F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, December 01, 2020
• Happy Days in Oncology: More Applause, Less Rigor? Dr Jack West worries that in our quest for positive outcomes, we've stopped being thought leaders and become cheerleaders instead.
  Medscape Oncology, December 01, 2020
• How COVID Vaccines Were Developed so Quickly   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Michelle McMurry-Heath about the speed of the COVID-19 vaccines and when a vaccine may be available to the general public.
  WebMD, December 01, 2020
• Medicare Payments Could Get Tougher for Docs Despite the new alternative payment models, costs have not declined, and Medicare may not have sufficient funds to cover benefit costs after 2024. Physicians could suffer a huge blow to their income.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, December 01, 2020
• TB in Primary Care: New Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines   Dr Neil Skolnik keeps it practical for PCPs with this summary of the latest diagnosis and treatment guidelines.
  Medscape Family Medicine, November 25, 2020
• Fish Oils and CV Prevention -- Now What?   Drs Tracy Wang and Renate Schnabel discuss new data on omega-3 fatty acids from the REDUCE-IT trial of icosapent ethyl. Do the STRENGTH, OMEMI, and VITAL Rhythm trials from the AHA meeting raise concerns?
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 25, 2020
• How a Medical School Dean Got Ahead of COVID-19   Dr Andrew Wilner talks with Dr Scott Strome, executive dean and vice chancellor for Clinical Affairs at University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
  Medscape Neurology, November 25, 2020
• How the US Has Mishandled the Pandemic   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Howard Koh about the missteps the United States has taken during the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can do better as vaccines become available.
  WebMD, November 24, 2020
• COVID Thanksgiving Analogies: Drunk Driving or Safe Sex?   As the holidays approach in the midst of another COVID surge, health professionals need to rally around a common public health message, says Dr F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, November 24, 2020
• Doctors: Our Culture Is Ours and We Need to Own It As physicians, we are complicit in the construction and maintenance of our culture. Is this who we want to be?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 24, 2020
• A Paradigm Shift for Preventing Stroke in Patients With Diabetes   Dr Christoph Diener on the promising new treatments that are taking aim at the deadly consequences of diabetes.
  Medscape Neurology, November 23, 2020
• CDC Doc Addresses Today's Pandemic and the Next A CDC physician's experience battling antibiotic resistance in a COVID-19 world.
  CDC Expert Commentary, November 23, 2020