Pulmonary Medicine Perspective and Journal Articles

• 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
• '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
• Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: What's the Evidence?   Everyone is talking about hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19, but there is no time to wait for large randomized trials. Will this be the end of evidence-based medicine as we know it?
  Medscape, March 25, 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
• Update: Public Health Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak What measures have been taken to prevent and contain the transmission of COVID-19 in the United States? This report provides an update.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, March 23, 2020
• Smalltown Practice: Even a Bathroom Stall Is No Escape Melissa Walton-Shirley recalls the joys and stresses of 24 years in smalltown private practice, where even an encounter in a public bathroom can turn into an office visit.
  theheart.org on Medscape, March 16, 2020
• Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Trim the Nonsense? 'From the beginning of this pandemic, I have felt a smallness to much of what I do in electrophysiology,' admits John Mandrola, MD.
  Medscape, March 12, 2020
• Should Medical Conferences Be Canceled for COVID-19?   Transmission of COVID-19 at a medical conference may have happened already. Should these meetings be canceled? Dr F. Perry Wilson gives us his take.
  Medscape, March 10, 2020
• AAAAI 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AAAAI 2020
  Medscape Allergy & Immunology, March 05, 2020
• Coding Guidelines for Coronavirus The CDC recently provided guidance for clinicians, given the spread of COVID-19. Coding expert Betsy Nicoletti explains what to do if you encounter the disease at your office.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 04, 2020
• Exposing the Role of Psychosocial Stress on Asthma Aaron Holley, MD, calls for more attention to the role of behavioral health in the clinical practice of asthma.
  Medscape Critical Care, February 28, 2020
• Managing Hypervolemia: Is More Diuretic Better? Dr Tejas Desai compares the seemingly contradictory results of the DOSE and DRAIN trials of loop diuretics in acute decompensated heart failure.
  Medscape Nephrology, February 27, 2020
• My Wrenching Decision to Leave Medicine After more than a decade as an internist, a physician explains why she is turning to entrepreneurship rather than to daily medical practice.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, February 26, 2020
• Hostile Culture 'Makes Worse Doctors'   A new study 'brings the numbers ' about the mistreatment of medical trainees.
  Medscape, February 26, 2020
• Even Very Old People Deserve Aggressive Medical Care   Bioethicist Art Caplan attacks the belief that an old person no longer deserves medical interventions for serious conditions.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, February 18, 2020
• SCCM 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from SCCM 2020
  Medscape Critical Care, February 14, 2020
• New Admission Test Flawed, Won't Produce Better Doctors Situational judgment tests are praised for their ability to increase diversity and assess certain traits in medical school applicants, but they may be doing more harm than good.
  Medscape Med Students, February 10, 2020
• Is Anxiety About the Coronavirus Out of Proportion? An expert considers what is fueling anxiety about the latest health scare.
  Medscape Psychiatry, January 31, 2020
• Sepsis Hysteria: The Emotionally Charged Debate   Dr Alok Patel discusses the debate surrounding the so-called sepsis hysteria.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, January 31, 2020