Coronavirus Perspective

• Clinicians Are 'Sent Into War With Pool Noodles,' 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
• 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
• COVID-19 Is Making Moral Injury to Physicians Much Worse Even before the coronavirus outbreak, physicians struggled with the 'moral injury' rampant in healthcare, causing them to provide care under some near-impossible conditions. What's the situation now?
  Medscape Business of Medicine, 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
• COVID-19 Infographics As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, here is a collection of infographics on key related issues and clinical information.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, 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
• 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
• Coding for Coronavirus: NEW Guidance Replaces Rule of 1 Month Ago CDC has taken the unprecedented step of introducing a new code for COVID-19 diagnoses, superseding guidance of just a month ago. Here's what you need to know to code and get paid.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, 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
• 'Thinnest Threads of Evidence' for COVID-19 Treatments   Potential treatments for COVID-19 may be emerging, but the landscape remains 'bleak,' says Dr Paul Auwaerter.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, March 27, 2020
• Stanford Hospitalist: 'What I Wish I'd Known 2 Weeks Ago'   Even with warning, the surge of COVID-19 patients came faster than expected, and hospitalists may need to be ready for 70% loss of staff availability, says Stanford's chief of hospital medicine.
  Medscape, 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
• COVID-19: ASTCT Provides Interim Guidelines for Transplantation The guidelines for the care of hematopoietic cell transplantation focus on diagnostic and treatment considerations, evaluation of patients prior to starting HCT therapy, and cell donor evaluation.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2020
• What Neurologists Can Expect From COVID-19 A discussion with Dr Kenneth Tyler on the most likely neurologic implications of the virus, and how the field can respond to the crisis.
  Medscape Neurology, March 26, 2020