Coronavirus Perspective

• HFSA 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from HFSA 2022
  theheart.org on Medscape, September 30, 2022
• Why Can't UK Immunocompromised Patients Get Evusheld?   Professor David Kerr discusses the controversy in the United Kingdom surrounding access to Evusheld.
  Medscape Oncology, September 29, 2022
• Medical Misinformation Harms Us All Medical misinformation threatens the health of us all, especially when healthcare providers are part of the problem.
  Medscape Blogs, September 29, 2022
• Polio in 2022: Some Concerns but Vaccine Still Works Christopher J. Harrison, MD, discusses the resurgence of polio and the vaccines.
  MDedge, September 28, 2022
• Substance and Opioid Abuse Report 2022 Physicians reveal their attitudes about substance abuse and how those challenges affect themselves and their patient's lives.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, September 28, 2022
• How Expressing Creativity Will Make You a Better Doctor Physicians can benefit by using both sides of their brain -- on and off the job.
  Medscape Blogs, September 28, 2022
• Me, My Spouse, and COVID In a 'Families in Psychiatry' column, Dr Alison Heru describes how the COVID-19 lockdown was handled in her house, and discusses various studies that examined family functioning during the pandemic.
  MDedge, September 27, 2022
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Antimicrobial Resistance in the US   Arjun Srinivasan, MD, deputy director for program improvement in the division of healthcare quality promotion at the CDC, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on antimicrobial resistance.
  CDC Expert Commentary, September 27, 2022
• The Pandemic Is NOT Over Biden betrayed the public by saying the pandemic is over.
  Medscape Blogs, September 27, 2022
• Could a Vaccine Fix the Fentanyl Crisis?   Drs Robert Glatter and Paul J. Christo discuss the ongoing and worsening fentanyl crisis in the United States.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, September 27, 2022
• Decline in Pediatric Vaccinations: What Does It Mean for Flu? An influenza expert and pediatrician weighs in on why we must not be complacent about routine vaccinations
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, September 26, 2022
• Yes, We Should Talk Politics and Religion With Patients Avoiding these formally taboo topics can put our patients at risk, argues this cardiologist.
  Medscape Blogs, September 26, 2022
• Infographic: Incomes Climb for Young Physicians For physicians younger than 40 years, average compensation rose in 2021 at rates even faster than for their older peers. However, a pay gap persists between younger male and female doctors.
  Medscape, September 23, 2022
• Supply Situation Improved but Medical Challenges in Ukraine   Miriam E. Tucker interviews Ukrainian Diabetology Association President Boris Mankovsky, MD, regarding the current state of healthcare in Ukraine.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, September 23, 2022
• The Best Reason to Get an Omicron Booster   Perry Wilson is getting an Omicron booster, but his reason for doing so might not be what you think it is.
  Medscape, September 21, 2022
• A Virologist's Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19   Virologist Jeremy Kamil shares his relatively upbeat perspective on the viral threats we face today.
  Medscape, September 21, 2022
• 'Alarming' CRC Screening Preferences Among Younger Patients   Dr David Johnson on the risks of younger patients moving toward FIT screening and away from colonoscopy.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, September 21, 2022
• Polio Making a Comeback in the US Poliovirus is spreading in the wastewater in New York City, and the United States has already seen one case of paralytic polio. We cannot accept a low vaccination rate.
  Medscape Blogs, September 19, 2022
• Quiet Quitting: Are Clinicians Dying Inside Bit by Bit? Physicians who feel they're overworked and exhausted have been cutting down on how much time and energy they're willing to give to the job. This "quiet quitting" movement is becoming popular.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, September 16, 2022
• Long COVID Was a Preventable Tragedy. Some of Us Saw It Coming What the researchers found as they took our blood, harvested our stem cells, ran tests to check our brain function, and more could have helped prepare doctors everywhere for the avalanche of long COVID cases.
  WebMD Health News, September 15, 2022