Medical Students Perspective

• Oncologists, Pathologists Need a 'Culture Change' on Biopsies   Dr Mark Kris discusses the profound effect that the wait time between cancer being diagnosed and treatment being initiated has on both patients and physicians.
  Medscape Oncology, April 03, 2020
• Is COVID-19 Leading to a Mental Illness Pandemic? People living through this crisis are experiencing trauma.
  Medscape Psychiatry, April 03, 2020
• 'Our Job Is to Save as Many People as Possible,' ICU Doc Says   'Usually in our clinical practice, you feel confident about a lot of the therapies that you're considering,' Angela Rogers, MD, said. But everything in the ICU is different with COVID-19.
  Medscape, April 02, 2020
• Hydroxychloroquine: Possible COVID Drug Can Be Toxic to Retinas Before it was a potential COVID-19 therapy, it was a well-studied treatment with an established risk for retinal toxicity.
  Medscape Ophthalmology, April 02, 2020
• Why Men Need Mind-Body Medicine Now More Than Ever   Dr Gregory Scott Brown discusses the importance of mind-body practice for men to improve overall health and even reduce the risk for suicide.
  Medscape Psychiatry, April 02, 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
• Is It Time That We All Start Wearing Masks? Is it time to change our public health message and suggest that everyone wear a mask? Dr Amy Baxter offers her arguments in support of change.
  Medscape Public Health, April 01, 2020
• Yes, There Is a Role for Poetry and Fiction in a Pandemic   'They fancy themselves free. And no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences,' wrote Camus in 'The Plague', which Abraham Verghese sees as relevant to our collective experience of COVID-19.
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 01, 2020
• Expert Opinion: "Crazy for Ketones" – The Ketogenic Diet in Athletes Athletic performance and physique have been closely associated with diet and nutrition for ages. One such diet is the ketogenic diet, increasingly favored by many athletes.
  ACC.org, 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
• Salt Loading in ADHF -- Really? Hypertonic saline in acute decompensated heart failure promotes anxiety in physicians; however, a new study rekindles the idea of promoting natriuresis through increasing renal plasma flow.
  Medscape Nephrology, 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
• What If a COVID-19 Test Is Negative? It's conventional wisdom that the secret sauce to fighting the pandemic is testing for the virus. Without testing, strategy is faith-based. But what'll you do differently if the test is negative?
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, 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
• 'Stealth Transmission' of COVID-19 Demands Widespread Mask Usage A New York cardiologist calls for universal mask usage to slow the spread of COVID-19.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, March 29, 2020
• Fighting COVID-19: 'Everyone Can Do Something' Healthcare professionals in specialty clinics may be wondering how they can help during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Jessica Sparks Lilley shares her thoughts.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, March 28, 2020
• Do Patients on Meds Become Complacent About Lifestyle?   Dr JoAnn Manson highlights a study looking at whether patients view medications as substitutes for a healthy lifestyle.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, March 27, 2020
• Neuroblastoma: Overview Video   This video covers key aspects of neuroblastoma, including the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
  Osmosis, March 27, 2020
• How Long Is It Safe to Delay Gynecologic Cancer Surgery? Many health systems have defined which surgeries they consider permissible during the pandemic, typically by using time parameters (days/weeks/hours) by which a patient would not be caused harm.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2020